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Tracker / CVE-2018-8822

CVE-2018-8822

High 7.8

Incorrect buffer length handling in the ncp_read_kernel function in fs/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.11, and in drivers/staging/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c in the Linux kernel 4.16-rc through 4.16-rc6, could be exploited by malicious NCPFS servers to crash the kernel or execute code.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.12 → 3.2.102
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.103
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.52
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.16.57
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.31
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.15.14
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.125
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.91

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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