Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's f2fs Extent Cache Handling

CVE-2017-18193 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13 mishandles extent trees, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) via an application with multiple threads.

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