CVE-2018-10840mediumCWE-122

CVE-2018-10840: medium-severity vulnerability in kernel heap-based buffer overflow in…

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.2epss 0.7%
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.
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
Affected products
kernel · heap-based buffer overflow in fs/ext4/xattr.c