CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-5333
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-01-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel through 4.14.13, the rds_cmsg_atomic function in net/rds/rdma.c mishandles cases where page pinning fails or an invalid address is supplied, leading to an rds_atomic_free_op NULL pointer dereference.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.14.13)
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 17.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7d11f77f84b27cef452cee332f4e469503084737 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156053/Reliable-Datagram-Sockets-RDS-rds_atomic_free_op-Privilege-Escalation.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102510 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0470 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7d11f77f84b27cef452cee332f4e469503084737 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-3/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3632-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7d11f77f84b27cef452cee332f4e469503084737 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156053/Reliable-Datagram-Sockets-RDS-rds_atomic_free_op-Privilege-Escalation.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102510 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0470 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7d11f77f84b27cef452cee332f4e469503084737 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-3/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3632-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187 Third Party Advisory