Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2018-10840 First vendor Publication 2018-07-16
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-02-13

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 6.6
Base Score 6.6 Environmental Score 6.6
impact SubScore 5.9 Temporal Score 6.6
Exploitabality Sub Score 0.7
 
Attack Vector Physical Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Linux kernel is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the fs/ext4/xattr.c:ext4_xattr_set_entry() function. An attacker could exploit this by operating on a mounted crafted ext4 image.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10840

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-537c8312fc.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-9d0e4e40b5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104858
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10840
REDHAT https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0162
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/3752-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3752-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3752-3/

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2023-02-13 09:27:45
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2019-10-10 05:20:16
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2019-01-30 21:18:40
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2018-12-07 17:19:12
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2018-09-17 21:20:09
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2018-08-29 17:20:05
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2018-08-24 17:19:57
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2018-07-17 05:17:52
  • First insertion