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CVE-2018-16862

CVE information

Published

5 years ago

Last Modified

4 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Low

CVSSv3.1 Severity

Medium

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
- -