CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-5873

7.0 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])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362, CWE-416

Description

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 configurations

• google android • linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.50) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.116) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.82) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.11)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
  • CWE-416 Use After Free weakness

References