CVE-2018-14646 Information

Description

The Linux kernel before 4.15-rc8 was found to be vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference bug in the __netlink_ns_capable() function in the net/netlink/af_netlink.c file. A local attacker could exploit this when a net namespace with a netnsid is assigned to cause a kernel panic and a denial of service.

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-2018:3651 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3666 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3843 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14646 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f428fe4a04cc339166c8bbd489789760de3a0cee https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=151500466401174&w=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