Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

  - CVE-2018-6554     A memory leak in the irda_bind function in the irda     subsystem was discovered. A local user can take     advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service     (memory consumption).

  - CVE-2018-6555     A flaw was discovered in the irda_setsockopt function in     the irda subsystem, allowing a local user to cause a     denial of service (use-after-free and system crash).

  - CVE-2018-7755     Brian Belleville discovered a flaw in the     fd_locked_ioctl function in the floppy driver in the     Linux kernel. The floppy driver copies a kernel pointer     to user memory in response to the FDGETPRM ioctl. A     local user with access to a floppy drive device can take     advantage of this flaw to discover the location kernel     code and data.

  - CVE-2018-9363     It was discovered that the Bluetooth HIDP implementation     did not correctly check the length of received report     messages. A paired HIDP device could use this to cause a     buffer overflow, leading to denial of service (memory     corruption or crash) or potentially remote code     execution.

  - CVE-2018-9516     It was discovered that the HID events interface in     debugfs did not correctly limit the length of copies to     user buffers. A local user with access to these files     could use this to cause a denial of service (memory     corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege     escalation. However, by default debugfs is only     accessible by the root user.

  - CVE-2018-10902     It was discovered that the rawmidi kernel driver does     not protect against concurrent access which leads to a     double-realloc (double free) flaw. A local attacker can     take advantage of this issue for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-10938     Yves Younan from Cisco reported that the Cipso IPv4     module did not correctly check the length of IPv4     options. On custom kernels with CONFIG_NETLABEL enabled,     a remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (hang).

  - CVE-2018-13099     Wen Xu from SSLab at Gatech reported a use-after-free     bug in the F2FS implementation. An attacker able to     mount a crafted F2FS volume could use this to cause a     denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or     possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-14609     Wen Xu from SSLab at Gatech reported a potential NULL     pointer dereference in the F2FS implementation. An     attacker able to mount a crafted F2FS volume could use     this to cause a denial of service (crash).

  - CVE-2018-14617     Wen Xu from SSLab at Gatech reported a potential NULL     pointer dereference in the HFS+ implementation. An     attacker able to mount a crafted HFS+ volume could use     this to cause a denial of service (crash).

  - CVE-2018-14633     Vincent Pelletier discovered a stack-based buffer     overflow flaw in the chap_server_compute_md5() function     in the iSCSI target code. An unauthenticated remote     attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a     denial of service or possibly to get a non-authorized     access to data exported by an iSCSI target.

  - CVE-2018-14678     M. Vefa Bicakci and Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in     the kernel exit code used on amd64 systems running as     Xen PV guests. A local user could use this to cause a     denial of service (crash).

  - CVE-2018-14734     A use-after-free bug was discovered in the InfiniBand     communication manager. A local user could use this to     cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption)     or possible for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-15572     Esmaiel Mohammadian Koruyeh, Khaled Khasawneh, Chengyu     Song, and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, from University of     California, Riverside, reported a variant of Spectre     variant 2, dubbed SpectreRSB. A local user may be able     to use this to read sensitive information from processes     owned by other users.

  - CVE-2018-15594     Nadav Amit reported that some indirect function calls     used in paravirtualised guests were vulnerable to     Spectre variant 2. A local user may be able to use this     to read sensitive information from the kernel.

  - CVE-2018-16276     Jann Horn discovered that the yurex driver did not     correctly limit the length of copies to user buffers. A     local user with access to a yurex device node could use     this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or     crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-16658     It was discovered that the cdrom driver does not     correctly validate the parameter to the     CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS ioctl. A user with access to a cdrom     device could use this to read sensitive information from     the kernel or to cause a denial of service (crash).

  - CVE-2018-17182     Jann Horn discovered that the vmacache_flush_all     function mishandles sequence number overflows. A local     user can take advantage of this flaw to trigger a     use-after-free, causing a denial of service (crash or     memory corruption) or privilege escalation.

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