CVE-2017-18232: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.15.9 mishandles a mutex within libsas, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by triggering certain error-handling code.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.15.9

Published 2018-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.