CVE-2018-1130

MEDIUM

Description

Linux kernel before version 4.16-rc7 is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit() function in net/dccp/output.c in that allows a local user to cause a denial of service by a number of certain crafted system calls.

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1854

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1130

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=67f93df79aeefc3add4e4b31a752600f834236e2

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00000.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00015.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00016.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html

https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=152036596825220&w=2

https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=833568de043e0909b2aeaef7be136db39d21ba94

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3656-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3697-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3697-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3698-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3698-2/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-05-10

Updated: 2018-10-31

Type: CWE-476

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: MEDIUM