Integer overflow in Linux kernel - CVE-2018-13053
Published: August 8, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU19997
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-13053
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists in kernel/time/alarmtimer.c within the alarm_timer_nsleep function. A local user can trigger integer overflow due to ktime_add_safe is not used and escalate privileges on the system.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-13053
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104671
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0831
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200303
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=5f936e19cc0ef97dbe3a56e9498922ad5ba1edef
- 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/3821-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3821-2/