CVE-2018-5333

unknown

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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VIR risk

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Description

In the Linux kernel through 4.14.13, the rds_cmsg_atomic function in net/rds/rdma.c mishandles cases where page pinning fails or an invalid address is supplied, leading to an rds_atomic_free_op NULL pointer dereference.

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	`4.14.17-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.14.17-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.14.17-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.14.17-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.14.17-1`

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5333.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5333

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