Buffer over-read in Linux kernel - CVE-2018-13098
Published: July 6, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13600
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-13098
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds read in fs/f2fs/inode.c file that occurs for a modified f2fs filesystem image in which FI_EXTRA_ATTR is set in an inode.
Affected software
Linux kernel
Opensuse
Opensuse
How to mitigate CVE-2018-13098
Install update from vendor's website.