#VU13600 Buffer over-read in Linux kernel - CVE-2018-13098 

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#VU13600 Buffer over-read in Linux kernel - CVE-2018-13098

Published: July 6, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13600
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-13098
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Linux kernel
Software vendor:
Linux Foundation

Description

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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