CVE-2018-10840
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.2epss 0.7%
exploitation probability
0.7%top 49% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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