Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-18200

Description

The f2fs implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.14 mishandles reference counts associated with f2fs_wait_discard_bios calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG), as demonstrated by fstrim.

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Affected products

SUSE S.A./Linux Enterprise Debuginfoinferred
Range: <4.14
Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy
Range: <4.14

Patches

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References

git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/638164a2718f337ea224b747cf5977ef143166a4nvdPatchThird Party Advisory

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