CVE-2018-18559 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel through 4.19 a use-after-free can occur due to a race condition between fanout_add from setsockopt and bind on an AF_PACKET socket. This issue exists because of the 15fe076edea787807a7cdc168df832544b58eba6 incomplete fix for a race condition. The code mishandles a certain multithreaded case involving a packet_do_bind unregister action followed by a packet_notifier register action. Later packet_release operates on only one of the two applicable linked lists. The attacker can achieve Program Counter control.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0163 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0188 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1170 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1190 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3967 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4159 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0174 https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3731

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.1