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Red Hat: CVE-2018-11412: Moderate: kernel-alt security and bug fix update (RHSA-2019:0525)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-11412: Moderate: kernel-alt security and bug fix update (RHSA-2019:0525)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/24/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
03/14/2019
Modified
03/27/2020

Description

In the Linux kernel 4.13 through 4.16.11, ext4_read_inline_data() in fs/ext4/inline.c performs a memcpy with an untrusted length value in certain circumstances involving a crafted filesystem that stores the system.data extended attribute value in a dedicated inode.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel

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