CVE-2018-7492

unknown

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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VIR risk

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Description

A NULL pointer dereference was found in the net/rds/rdma.c __rds_rdma_map() function in the Linux kernel before 4.14.7 allowing local attackers to cause a system panic and a denial-of-service, related to RDS_GET_MR and RDS_GET_MR_FOR_DEST.

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	`4.14.7-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.14.7-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.14.7-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.14.7-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.14.7-1`

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7492.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7492

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