CVE-2018-10880
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-25 13:00
Modified
2024-08-05 07:54
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Linux kernel is vulnerable to a stack-out-of-bounds write in the ext4 filesystem code when mounting and writing to a crafted ext4 image in ext4_update_inline_data(). An attacker could use this to cause a system crash and a denial of service.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/930639/Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104907
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106503Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200005Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10880Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8cdb5240ec5928b20490a2bb34cb87e9a5f40226Patch, 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/3821-1/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3821-2/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
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/930639/Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104907
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106503Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200005Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10880Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8cdb5240ec5928b20490a2bb34cb87e9a5f40226Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3821-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3821-2/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-3/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-4/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-5/Third Party Advisory
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