Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.18)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004550
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-14734  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.18 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.11 allows ucma_leave_multicast to access a certain data structure after a cleanup step in ucma_process_join, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free).

CVSS Base Scores

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