CVE-2018-14617

Medium

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.10. There is a NULL pointer dereference and panic in hfsplus_lookup() in fs/hfsplus/dir.c when opening a file (that is purportedly a hard link) in an hfs+ filesystem that has malformed catalog data, and is mounted read-only without a metadata directory.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedJul 27, 2018
First seenJul 27, 2018

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv ≤ 4.17.10—
debian debian_linux8.0, 9.0—
canonical ubuntu_linux14.04, 16.04—

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