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CVE-2018-1068
A flaw was found in the Linux 4.x kernel's implementation of 32-bit syscall interface for bridging. This allowed a privileged user to…
Medium6.7EPSS 0.45%
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- redhat
Description
A flaw was found in the Linux 4.x kernel's implementation of 32-bit syscall interface for bridging. This allowed a privileged user to arbitrarily write to a limited range of kernel memory.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.7.
Weakness
Affected products
Linux Kernel Organization, Inc. · Linux Kernel
- affected 4.x
References (22)
- DSA-4187 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-3654-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3674-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3677-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1552048 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-4188 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [linux-netdev] 20180305 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in compat_copy_entries (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b71812168571fa55e44cdd0254471331b9c4c4c6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b71812168571fa55e44cdd0254471331b9c4c4c6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3674-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1355 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2948 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 103459 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1318 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-3677-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3654-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [linux-netdev] 20180305 [PATCH net] netfilter: check for out-of-bounds while copying compat entries (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180502 [SECURITY] [DLA 1369-1] linux security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-3656-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:1170 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:1190 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4159 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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