CVE-2018-1130

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 26
Modified
Published: 10 May 2018, 13:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 03:51

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
22/100
CVSS Score
5.5 MEDIUM
v3.0 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.04% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

10 May 2018, 13:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 03:51
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Linux kernel before version 4.16-rc7 is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit() function in net/dccp/output.c in that allows a local user to cause a denial of service by a number of certain crafted system calls.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.9AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.04%• Percentile: 14%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-476•NULL Pointer Dereference

    The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    14.04 | 16.04

  • debian•debian_linux

    7.0 | 8.0

  • linux•linux_kernel

    < 4.16 | 4.16:rc1 | 4.16:rc2 | 4.16:rc3 | 4.16:rc4 | 4.16:rc5 | 4.16:rc6

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_desktop

    7.0

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_server

    7.0

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_workstation

    7.0

  • unspecified•kernel

    kernel 4.16-rc7

References (18)