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Tracker / CVE-2018-5332

CVE-2018-5332

High 7.8

In the Linux kernel through 3.2, the rds_message_alloc_sgs() function does not validate a value that is used during DMA page allocation, leading to a heap-based out-of-bounds write (related to the rds_rdma_extra_size function in net/rds/rdma.c).

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.2.99
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.92
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.50
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.16.54
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.44
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.112
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.77

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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