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CVE-2018-1065

The netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 mishandles the case of a rule blob that contains a jump but lacks a user-defined

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Summary

The netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 mishandles the case of a rule blob that contains a jump but lacks a user-defined chain, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging the CAP_NET_RAW or CAP_NET_ADMIN capability, related to arpt_do_table in net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c, ipt_do_table in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c, and ip6t_do_table in net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c.

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • n/a Linux kernel 4.15.0-rc9

    Linux kernel 4.15.0-rc9

References 11

securitytracker.com

usn.ubuntu.com

debian.org

access.redhat.com

bugzilla.redhat.com

lists.openwall.net

patchwork.ozlabs.org

GitHub · torvalds/linux

git.kernel.org