CVE-2018-12714

critical

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.2. The filter parsing in kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c could be called with no filter, which is an N=0 case when it expected at least one line to have been read, thus making the N-1 index invalid. This allows attackers to cause a denial of service (slab out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted perf_event_open and mmap system calls.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/81f9c4e4177d31ced6f52a89bb70e93bfb77ca03

https://github.com/lcytxw/bug_repro/tree/master/bug_200019

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200019

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104544

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=81f9c4e4177d31ced6f52a89bb70e93bfb77ca03

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-24

Updated: 2023-01-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical