CVE-2018-14617 (GCVE-0-2018-14617)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-27 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 09:29
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.10. There is a NULL pointer dereference and panic in hfsplus_lookup() in fs/hfsplus/dir.c when opening a file (that is purportedly a hard link) in an hfs+ filesystem that has malformed catalog data, and is mounted read-only without a metadata directory.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104917 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg13… x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3821-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297 x_refsource_MISC
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2018-07-26 00:00
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