CVE-2018-16880: medium-severity vulnerability in The Linux Foundation kernel
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.9epss 0.6%
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handle_rx() function in the [vhost_net] driver. A malicious virtual guest, under specific conditions, can trigger an out-of-bounds write in a kmalloc-8 slab on a virtual host which may lead to a kernel memory corruption and a system panic. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out. Versions from v4.16 and newer are vulnerable.
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Affected products
The Linux Foundation · kernelRelated CVEs — The Linux Foundation kernel
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