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Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Affecting kernel-uek-devel package, versions <0:4.1.12-124.23.1.el6uek

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE6-KERNELUEKDEVEL-2531453
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed26 Oct 2018
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Introduced: 26 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18690  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-754  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:6 kernel-uek-devel to version 0:4.1.12-124.23.1.el6uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2018-4299.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uek-devel package and not the kernel-uek-devel package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel before 4.17, a local attacker able to set attributes on an xfs filesystem could make this filesystem non-operational until the next mount by triggering an unchecked error condition during an xfs attribute change, because xfs_attr_shortform_addname in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c mishandles ATTR_REPLACE operations with conversion of an attr from short to long form.

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