CVE-2018-5873

3Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Trackepss 0.5%

exploitation probability

0.5%top 58% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

An issue was discovered in the __ns_get_path function in fs/nsfs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11. Due to a race condition when accessing files, a Use After Free condition can occur. This also affects all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before security patch level 2018-07-05.

Affected products

Qualcomm, Inc. · Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=073c516ff73557a8f7315066856c04b50383ac34 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/073c516ff73557a8f7315066856c04b50383ac34 https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-07-01 https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.9/commit/?id=34742aaf7cb16c95edba4a7afed6d2c4fa7e434b https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/07/02/july-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin