{"id":"CVE-2018-7995","details":"Race condition in the store_int_with_restart() function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by leveraging root access to write to the check_interval file in a /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheck\u003ccpu number\u003e directory. NOTE: a third party has indicated that this report is not security relevant","modified":"2026-03-15T22:27:33.033723Z","published":"2018-03-09T15:29:00.407Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-2/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103356"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3656-1/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-1/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084755"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/2/970"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=b3b7c4795ccab5be71f080774c45bbbcc75c2aaf"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"4.15.7"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"14.04"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"16.04"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"7.0"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-7995.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}