CVE-2018-16658

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
VIR risk

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.18.6. An information leak in cdrom_ioctl_drive_status in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c could be used by local attackers to read kernel memory because a cast from unsigned long to int interferes with bounds checking. This is similar to CVE-2018-10940.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.18.6-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.18.6-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.18.6-1
debian debiansidfixed4.18.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.18.6-1

References

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Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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