Vulnerability CVE-2018-7492
Published: 2018-02-26

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.

Type:

CWE-476

 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

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=f3069c6d33f6ae63a1668737bc78aaaa51bff7ca
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103185
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527393
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f3069c6d33f6ae63a1668737bc78aaaa51bff7ca
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10096441/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3674-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3674-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-2/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.7
https://xorl.wordpress.com/2017/12/18/linux-kernel-rdma-null-pointer-dereference/
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