CVE-2018-10940 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2018-10940?

CVE-2018-10940 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 9 May 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The cdrom_ioctl_media_changed function in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16.6 allows local attackers to use a incorrect bounds check in the CDROM driver CDROM_MEDIA_CHANGED ioctl to read out kernel memory.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10940?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2018-10940?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2018-10940 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10940 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10940, GHSA-3rm8-9cxg-8m49, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10940.