UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11508

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11508

    Published: 28 May 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-11508
    Aliases:
    USN-3695-1
    USN-3695-2
    USN-3697-1

    Summary:

    Details: The compat_get_timex function in kernel/compat.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via adjtimex.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-11508, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1574, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0a0b98734479aa5b3c671d5190e86273372cab95, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0a0b98734479aa5b3c671d5190e86273372cab95, https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.16.9, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3695-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3695-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3697-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3697-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11508

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-azure

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.15.0-1014.14~16.04.1

    Affected versions

    4.11.0-1009.9
    4.11.0-1011.11
    4.11.0-1013.13
    4.11.0-1014.14
    4.11.0-1015.15
    4.11.0-1016.16

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High