CVE-2018-16862
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-11-26 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:32
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Summary
A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel in a way that the cleancache subsystem clears an inode after the final file truncation (removal). The new file created with the same inode may contain leftover pages from cleancache and the old file data instead of the new one.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106009Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16862Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1011367/Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/169Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/
Impacted products
[UNKNOWN]kernel:
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