CVE-2018-18690

Summary

CVECVE-2018-18690
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-10-26 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-754

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-3848-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
199119 – Replacing XFS extended attribute with longer value causes filesystem corruption MISC bugzilla.kernel.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
USN-3847-3: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
USN-3848-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1715-1] linux-4.9 security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1731-2] linux regression update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[SECURITY] [DLA 1731-1] linux security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
xfs: don't fail when converting shortform attr to long form during AT… · torvalds/linux@7b38460 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
USN-3847-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
USN-3849-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Bug 1105025 – VUL-0: CVE-2018-18690: kernel-source: xfs: xfstests generic/486 fail in xfs could be used by local users to disable filesystems MISC bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
USN-3847-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
USN-3849-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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