CVE-2018-1065

Summary

CVECVE-2018-1065
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-03-02 08:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 04:53:00 UTC
DescriptionThe netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 mishandles the case of a rule blob that contains a jump but lacks a user-defined chain, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging the CAP_NET_RAW or CAP_NET_ADMIN capability, related to arpt_do_table in net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c, ipt_do_table in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c, and ip6t_do_table in net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1547824 – (CVE-2018-1065) CVE-2018-1065 kernel: netfilter: xtables NULL pointer dereference in ip6_tables.c:ip6t_do_table() leading to a crash MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4188-1 linux DEBIAN www.debian.org
CVE-2018-1065 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
netfilter: add back stackpointer size checks · torvalds/linux@57ebd80 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
[nf] netfilter: add back stackpointer size checks - Patchwork MISC patchwork.ozlabs.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
USN-3654-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
netdev - general protection fault in ip6t_do_table MISC lists.openwall.net Third Party Advisory
Linux Kernel Netfilter jumpstack Allocation Error Lets Local Users Cause Denial of Service Conditions on the Target System - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
USN-3654-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
USN-3656-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2, Snapdragon) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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