CVE-2018-10360 Denial of service in n/a
Medium 6.5
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2018-10360 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2018-10360 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 11 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10360 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Canonical Ubuntu Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-10360/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-10360/index.md)
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via a crafted ELF file due to an out-of-bounds read in the file library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-10360?
CVE-2018-10360 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 11 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The do_core_note function in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.33 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
Weakness: CWE-125
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10360?
It affects 3 products.
Linux distribution packages (40)
file Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-static Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
python-magic Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-static Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
python-magic Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-static Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
python-magic Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file-static Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
python-magic Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation | All versions | 0:5.11-36.el7 |
file Red Hat:rhel_aus:7.4::server | All versions | 0:5.11-33.el7_4.1 |
file-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_aus:7.4::server | All versions | 0:5.11-33.el7_4.1 |
file-devel Red Hat:rhel_aus:7.4::server | All versions | 0:5.11-33.el7_4.1 |
file-libs Red Hat:rhel_aus:7.4::server | All versions | 0:5.11-33.el7_4.1 |
file-static Red Hat:rhel_aus:7.4::server | All versions | 0:5.11-33.el7_4.1 |
python-magic Red Hat:rhel_aus:7.4::server | All versions | 0:5.11-33.el7_4.1 |
file Red Hat:rhel_e4s:7.4::server | All versions | 0:5.11-33.el7_4.1 |
file-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_e4s:7.4::server | All versions | 0:5.11-33.el7_4.1 |
file-devel Red Hat:rhel_e4s:7.4::server | All versions | 0:5.11-33.el7_4.1 |
file-libs Red Hat:rhel_e4s:7.4::server | All versions | 0:5.11-33.el7_4.1 |
file-static Red Hat:rhel_e4s:7.4::server | All versions | 0:5.11-33.el7_4.1 |
python-magic Red Hat:rhel_e4s:7.4::server | All versions | 0:5.11-33.el7_4.1 |
file Red Hat:rhel_eus:7.6::computenode | All versions | 0:5.11-35.el7_6.1 |
file-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_eus:7.6::computenode | All versions | 0:5.11-35.el7_6.1 |
file-devel Red Hat:rhel_eus:7.6::computenode | All versions | 0:5.11-35.el7_6.1 |
file-libs Red Hat:rhel_eus:7.6::computenode | All versions | 0:5.11-35.el7_6.1 |
Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, File Project File, Opensuse Leap.
How do I fix CVE-2018-10360?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2018-10360 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10360 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10360, GHSA-fgjw-9ghg-j43j, MGASA-2018-0295, RHSA-2020:1022, RHSA-2020:2521, RHSA-2020:2768 and 2 more.