APPLIED: [CVE artful/linux trusty/linux] CVE-2018-7757 -- Memory leak in the SAS subsystem

[Khaled Elmously]

Applied to T and A


On 2018-05-24 11:56:42 , Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> CVE-2018-7757:
>     It was discovered that a memory leak existed in the SAS driver
>     subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to
>     cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion).
> 
> This fix has arrived by direct application in bionic and stable in other
> series.  This remains open in artful and trusty.  Following this email
> is a patch for both of these.
> 
> Proposing for SRU to artful and trusty.
> 
> -apw
> 
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