Bug 1610106 (CVE-2018-14616)

Summary:	CVE-2018-14616 kernel: NULL pointer dereference in fs/crypto/crypto.c:fscrypt_do_page_crypto() when operating on a corrupted f2fs image
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
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, mguzik, mjg59, mlangsdo, nmurray, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, skozina, slawomir, steved, sthangav, trankin, vdronov, williams
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel in the F2FS filesystem code. A NULL pointer dereference in fscrypt_do_page_crypto() in the fs/crypto/crypto.c function can occur when operating on a file on a corrupted f2fs image.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1610107, 1610108
Bug Blocks:	1610109

Description Sam Fowler 2018-07-31 01:51:54 UTC

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel in the F2FS filesystem code. There is a NULL pointer dereference in fscrypt_do_page_crypto() in fs/crypto/crypto.c when operating on a file on a corrupted f2fs image.

Upstream Bug:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200465

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-07-31 01:53:03 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1610107]

Comment 5 Vladis Dronov 2018-08-02 16:42:29 UTC

Note:

An F2FS filesystem is not shipped with any of the Red Hat products.