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CVE-2018-5344

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · CWE-362
7.8CVSS HIGH

Summary

In the Linux kernel through 4.14.13, drivers/block/loop.c mishandles lo_release serialization, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (__lock_acquire use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ae6650163c66a7eff1acd6eb8b0f752dcfa8eba5 ↗