vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-14617: kernel: NULL pointer dereference in fs/hfsplus/dir.c:hfsplus_lookup() when operating on a file in a crafted hfs+ image

Severity
7
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 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

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