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CVE-2018-10840

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NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10840

CGA ID

CGA-4hr9-fhj3-7gpf

Severity

Unknown

Description

Linux kernel is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the fs/ext4/xattr.c:ext4_xattr_set_entry() function. An attacker could exploit this by operating on a mounted crafted ext4 image.

References

Affected packages


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