Vulnerability CVE-2018-18690
Published: 2018-10-26   Modified: 2018-10-29

Description:
In the Linux kernel before 4.17, a local attacker able to set attributes on an xfs filesystem could make this filesystem non-operational until the next mount by triggering an unchecked error condition during an xfs attribute change, because xfs_attr_shortform_addname in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c mishandles ATTR_REPLACE operations with conversion of an attr from short to long form.

Type:

CWE-754

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
6.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7b38460dc8e4eafba06c78f8e37099d3b34d473c
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105753
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199119
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105025
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7b38460dc8e4eafba06c78f8e37099d3b34d473c
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-3/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3848-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3848-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3849-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3849-2/
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