CVE-2018-10879

Description

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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-5/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-4/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-3/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3753-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3753-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5369a762c882c0b6e9599e4ebbb3a9ba9eee7e2d

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=513f86d73855ce556ea9522b6bfd79f87356dc3a

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10879

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200001

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104902

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/928667/

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/928666/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3