PT-2018-10441 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Published 2018-09-18 · Updated 2018-11-09 · CVE-2018-11270

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue affects memory allocation using devm kzalloc in the Linux kernel. If the probe function fails with an error code, the kernel automatically releases the allocated memory. This can lead to data corruption.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Double Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-415

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-11270

Affected Products

Linux Kernel

References · 4

• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-09-01#qualcomm-components · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11270 · Security Note
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=d475e1aba3f8be3b135199014549ff9d5c315e1d · Patch
• https://codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin · Patch