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CVE-2018-10883
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(), a…
Medium4.8EPSS 0.53%
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- redhat
Description
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(), a denial of service, and a system crash by mounting and operating on a crafted ext4 filesystem image.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.53% · top 55% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Weakness
Affected products
References (14)
- RHSA-2018:3083 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-3879-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3879-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10883 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e09463f220ca9a1a1ecfda84fcda658f99a1f12a (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3871-5 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-3871-4 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180718 [SECURITY] [DLA 1423-1] linux-4.9 new package (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2948 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8bc1379b82b8e809eef77a9fedbb75c6c297be19 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3871-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3096 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-3871-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K94735334?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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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