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CVE-2017-18261

n/a / n/a PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

The arch_timer_reg_read_stable macro in arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h in the Linux kernel before 4.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) by writing to a file under /sys/kernel/debug in certain circumstances, as demonstrated by a scenario involving debugfs, ftrace, PREEMPT_TRACER, and FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
n/a / n/aaffected n/a

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.