CVE-2018-10879
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-26 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 07:46
Severity ?
4.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause a use-after-free in ext4_xattr_set_entry function and a denial of service or unspecified other impact may occur by renaming a file in a crafted ext4 filesystem image.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/928666/Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/928667/Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104902Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200001Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10879Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=513f86d73855ce556ea9522b6bfd79f87356dc3aPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5369a762c882c0b6e9599e4ebbb3a9ba9eee7e2dPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3753-1/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3753-2/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-1/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-3/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-4/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-5/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
[UNKNOWN]kernel
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