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Tracker / CVE-2018-13406

CVE-2018-13406

High 7.8

An integer overflow in the uvesafb_setcmap function in drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c in the Linux kernel before 4.17.4 could result in local attackers being able to crash the kernel or potentially elevate privileges because kmalloc_array is not used.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.24 → 3.16.58
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.114
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.4.139
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.53
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.17.4
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.111

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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