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Red Hat: CVE-2018-14613: kernel: Invalid pointer dereference in io_ctl_map_page() when mounting and operating a crafted btrfs image

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2018-14613: kernel: Invalid pointer dereference in io_ctl_map_page() when mounting and operating a crafted btrfs image
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2018-07-27T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2018, 14613, kernel, no-fix-redhat-rpm-package, Severity 7

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

Jul 27, 2018

Added

Jul 9, 2025

Modified

Jul 9, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.10. There is an invalid pointer dereference in io_ctl_map_page() when mounting and operating a crafted btrfs image, because of a lack of block group item validation in check_leaf_item in fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package

References

NVD-CVE-2018-14613

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