CVE-2018-18690 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel before 4.17 a local attacker able to set attributes on an xfs filesystem could make this filesystem non-operational until the next mount by triggering an unchecked error condition during an xfs attribute change because xfs_attr_shortform_addname in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c mishandles ATTR_REPLACE operations with conversion of an attr from short to long form.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7b38460dc8e4eafba06c78f8e37099d3b34d473c http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105753 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199119 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105025 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7b38460dc8e4eafba06c78f8e37099d3b34d473c https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-3/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3848-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3848-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3849-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3849-2/

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