CVE-2018-16862
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 56% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel in a way that the cleancache subsystem clears an inode after the final file truncation (removal). The new file created with the same inode may contain leftover pages from cleancache and the old file data instead of the new one.
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Affected products
[UNKNOWN] · kernel:References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16862https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.htmlhttps://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1011367/https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/169https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106009