CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-13406

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-07-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-07-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Description

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 configurations

• 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 (>= 4.5 < 4.9.111) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.53) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.17.4) • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 18.04 • debian debian linux 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References