CVE-2018-1130 Information

Description

Linux kernel before version 4.16-rc7 is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit() function in net/dccp/output.c in that allows a local user to cause a denial of service by a number of certain crafted system calls.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1854 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1130 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=67f93df79aeefc3add4e4b31a752600f834236e2 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00000.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00015.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00016.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=152036596825220&w=2 https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=833568de043e0909b2aeaef7be136db39d21ba94 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3656-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3697-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3697-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3698-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3698-2/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5