CVE-2018-10880 Memory corruption in kernel

What is CVE-2018-10880?

CVE-2018-10880 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 25 Jul 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Linux kernel is vulnerable to a stack-out-of-bounds write in the ext4 filesystem code when mounting and writing to a crafted ext4 image in ext4_update_inline_data(). An attacker could use this to cause a system crash and a denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10880?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2018-10880?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-10880 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10880 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10880, GHSA-3xm5-vf98-cwqx, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10880.