NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting linux-4.9 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LINUX49-263016
  • published11 Jul 2018
  • disclosed3 Jul 2018

Introduced: 3 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-13094  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 linux-4.9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-4.9 package and not the linux-4.9 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3. An OOPS may occur for a corrupted xfs image after xfs_da_shrink_inode() is called with a NULL bp.