CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-8043
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-03-10
- 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])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
The unimac_mdio_probe function in drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.8 does not validate certain resource availability, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference).
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.15.8)
• 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=297a6961ffb8ff4dc66c9fbf53b924bd1dda05d5 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040749 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/297a6961ffb8ff4dc66c9fbf53b924bd1dda05d5 Patch, 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/3630-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3630-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3632-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=297a6961ffb8ff4dc66c9fbf53b924bd1dda05d5 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040749 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/297a6961ffb8ff4dc66c9fbf53b924bd1dda05d5 Patch, 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/3630-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3630-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3632-1/ Third Party Advisory