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Tracker / CVE-2018-10879

CVE-2018-10879

Medium 4.2

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause a use-after-free in ext4_xattr_set_entry function and a denial of service or unspecified other impact may occur by renaming a file in a crafted ext4 filesystem image.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.17.6
redhat enterprise_linux
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop
redhat enterprise_linux_server
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation

Analysis

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