CVE-2018-14609

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.10. There is an invalid pointer dereference in __del_reloc_root() in fs/btrfs/relocation.c when mounting a crafted btrfs image, related to removing reloc rb_trees when reloc control has not been initialized.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14609

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14609.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.18.8-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.18.8-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.18.8-1
debian debiansidfixed4.18.8-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.18.8-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.