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Tracker / CVE-2018-5873

CVE-2018-5873

High 7.0

An issue was discovered in the __ns_get_path function in fs/nsfs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11. Due to a race condition when accessing files, a Use After Free condition can occur. This also affects all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before security patch level 2018-07-05.

Affected products and versions

google android
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.50
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.11
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.116
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.82

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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