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Debian: CVE-2018-14617: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-14617: linux -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
07/27/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/02/2018
Modified
07/07/2020

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

References

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