CVE-2018-18690

unknown

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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VIR risk

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Description

In the Linux kernel before 4.17, a local attacker able to set attributes on an xfs filesystem could make this filesystem non-operational until the next mount by triggering an unchecked error condition during an xfs attribute change, because xfs_attr_shortform_addname in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c mishandles ATTR_REPLACE operations with conversion of an attr from short to long form.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.17.3-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.17.3-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.17.3-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.17.3-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.17.3-1`

References

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