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CVE-2018-12714

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.2.

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Summary

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.2. The filter parsing in kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c could be called with no filter, which is an N=0 case when it expected at least one line to have been read, thus making the N-1 index invalid. This allows attackers to cause a denial of service (slab out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted perf_event_open and mmap system calls.

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Affected versions

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    Version range not reported

References 5

GitHub · lcytxw/bug_repro

GitHub · torvalds/linux

git.kernel.org

bugzilla.kernel.org

securityfocus.com