PT-2018-2585 · Linux+5 · Linux Kernel+5

Wen Xu · Published 2017-03-17 · Updated 2023-02-12 · CVE-2018-10883

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue is related to a flaw in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem, specifically with the jbd2 journal dirty metadata() function, which can cause an out-of-bounds write. This can be exploited by a local user to cause a denial of service and a system crash by mounting and operating on a specially crafted ext4 filesystem image.

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

DoS

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1299

ALT-PU-2018-1950

ALT-PU-2018-2001

ALT-PU-2018-2002

ALT-PU-2018-2003

BDU:2019-01060

CESA-2018_3083

CVE-2018-10883

DLA-1423-1

DLA-1529-1

MGASA-2018-0324

MGASA-2018-0340

MGASA-2018-0341

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_2404-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_2407-1

RHSA-2018:2948

RHSA-2018:3083

RHSA-2018:3096

RHSA-2018_3083

RHSA-2018_3096

SUSE-SU-2018:2380-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2381-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2450-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2596-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2775-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2776-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2858-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2908-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2908-2

SUSE-SU-2018:3083-1

SUSE-SU-2018:3084-1

USN-3871-1

USN-3871-2

USN-3871-3

USN-3871-4

USN-3871-5

USN-3879-1

USN-3879-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 423

• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2775-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0324 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3879-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-10882 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e09463f220ca9a1a1ecfda84fcda658f99a1f12a · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0340 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3871-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0341 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10883 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3871-4 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1423-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-10877 · Vendor Advisory