CVE-2018-11232 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a system panic in the Linux kernel via the coresight-etm-perf module due to incorrect variable usage.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2018-11232?

CVE-2018-11232 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 May 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The etm_setup_aux function in drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) because a parameter is incorrectly used as a local variable.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-11232?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2018-11232?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-11232 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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Is CVE-2018-11232 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-11232 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-cp3w-hmvq-8f3h.

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