CVE-2018-5332

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    CVE-2018-5332

    Published: 11 Jan 2018Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: In the Linux kernel through 3.2, the rds_message_alloc_sgs() function does not validate a value that is used during DMA page allocation, leading to a heap-based out-of-bounds write (related to the rds_rdma_extra_size function in net/rds/rdma.c).

    References: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3632-1/, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0470, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-3/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102507, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3620-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3620-2/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-2/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c095508770aebf1b9218e77026e48345d719b17c, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=60daca9efbb3e4109ebc1f7069543e5573fc124e, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c095508770aebf1b9218e77026e48345d719b17c

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