cvelistv5 - CVE-2018-16880

CVE-2018-16880

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2019-01-29 16:00

Modified

2024-08-05 10:32

Severity ?

5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Summary

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handle_rx() function in the [vhost_net] driver. A malicious virtual guest, under specific conditions, can trigger an out-of-bounds write in a kmalloc-8 slab on a virtual host which may lead to a kernel memory corruption and a system panic. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out. Versions from v4.16 and newer are vulnerable.

References

URL	Tags
secalert@redhat.com	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00037.html	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106735	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.com	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16880	Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K03593314	Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-1/	Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3903-2/	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	The Linux Foundation	kernel

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