Description
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(), a denial of service, and a system crash by mounting and operating on a crafted ext4 filesystem image.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.0
Attack Vector
Physical
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
High
Affected products
- Unknown / kerneln/a – n/a
References
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/
- MISChttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10883
- MISChttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e09463f220ca9a1a1ecfda84fcda658f99a1f12a
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-5/
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-4/
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948
- MISChttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8bc1379b82b8e809eef77a9fedbb75c6c297be19
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-1/
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-3/
- MISChttps://support.f5.com/csp/article/K94735334?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS