# CVE-2018-12633: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.2.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2018-06-22 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.2. vbg_misc_device_ioctl() in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_linux.c reads the same user data twice with copy_from_user. The header part of the user data is double-fetched, and a malicious user thread can tamper with the critical variables (hdr.size_in and hdr.size_out) in the header between the two fetches because of a race condition, leading to severe kernel errors, such as buffer over-accesses. This bug can cause a local denial of service and information leakage.

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## References

- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200131
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bd23a7269834dc7c1f93e83535d16ebc44b75eba
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bd23a7269834dc7c1f93e83535d16ebc44b75eba
- https://github.com/wiliam227user/CVE-2018-12633-TPLink-Auth-Bypass

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