Vulnerability Details CVE-2018-12714
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.2. The filter parsing in kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c could be called with no filter, which is an N=0 case when it expected at least one line to have been read, thus making the N-1 index invalid. This allows attackers to cause a denial of service (slab out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted perf_event_open and mmap system calls.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.012
EPSS Ranking 78.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
CVSS v2 Score 10.0
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=81f9c4e4177d31ced6f52a89bb70e93bfb77ca03
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104544
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200019
- https://github.com/lcytxw/bug_repro/tree/master/bug_200019
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/81f9c4e4177d31ced6f52a89bb70e93bfb77ca03
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=81f9c4e4177d31ced6f52a89bb70e93bfb77ca03
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104544
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200019
- https://github.com/lcytxw/bug_repro/tree/master/bug_200019
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/81f9c4e4177d31ced6f52a89bb70e93bfb77ca03
Products affected by CVE-2018-12714
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:4.17
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:4.17.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:4.17.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:4.17.3