Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.18)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006362
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-14611  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.18 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.10. There is a use-after-free in try_merge_free_space() when mounting a crafted btrfs image, because of a lack of chunk type flag checks in btrfs_check_chunk_valid in fs/btrfs/volumes.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1