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CVE-2018-16862
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
CVSSv3.1 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel in a way that the cleancache subsystem clears an inode after the final file truncation (removal). The new file created with the same inode may contain leftover pages from cleancache and the old file data instead of the new one..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Low
- Base Score
- 2.1/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.9/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 2.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Partial
- Availability Impact
- None
- Integrity Impact
- None
CVSSv3.1 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 5.5/10
- Exploit Score
- 1.8/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Privileges Required
- Low
- Impact Score
- 3.6/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- High
- Availability Impact
- None
- Integrity Impact
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- User Interaction
- None
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/169
- https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1011367/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16862
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106009
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/