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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-10840: linux -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 16, 2018
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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