Bug 1600268 (CVE-2018-5873)
Summary: | CVE-2018-5873 kernel: use-after-free in __ns_get_path() | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Laura Pardo <lpardo> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | abhgupta, airlied, aquini, bhu, blc, bskeggs, dbaker, dhoward, esammons, ewk, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, hwkernel-mgr, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jforbes, jglisse, jkacur, john.j5live, jokerman, jonathan, josef, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, linville, lwang, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mjg59, mlangsdo, nmurray, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, skozina, slawomir, steved, sthangav, trankin, williams, wmealing |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
Doc Text: |
An issue was discovered in the __ns_get_path function in fs/nsfs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11. Due to a race condition when accessing files, a Use After Free condition can occur. A local attacker may be able to leverage this fault to escalate privileges on the system.
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Last Closed: | 2018-08-24 12:20:41 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 1600269 |
Description
Laura Pardo
2018-07-11 21:18:15 UTC
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