CVE-2018-7492

medium

Description

A NULL pointer dereference was found in the net/rds/rdma.c __rds_rdma_map() function in the Linux kernel before 4.14.7 allowing local attackers to cause a system panic and a denial-of-service, related to RDS_GET_MR and RDS_GET_MR_FOR_DEST.

References

https://xorl.wordpress.com/2017/12/18/linux-kernel-rdma-null-pointer-dereference/

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.7

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3674-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3674-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10096441/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f3069c6d33f6ae63a1668737bc78aaaa51bff7ca

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527393

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103185

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f3069c6d33f6ae63a1668737bc78aaaa51bff7ca

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-02-26

Updated: 2019-03-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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