Tracker / CVE-2018-10840
CVE-2018-10840
Medium 6.6
Linux kernel is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the fs/ext4/xattr.c:ext4_xattr_set_entry() function. An attacker could exploit this by operating on a mounted crafted ext4 image.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel |
| redhat | enterprise_linux |
Analysis
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