UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12232

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12232

    Published: 12 Jun 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-12232

    Summary:

    Details: In net/socket.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.1, there is a race condition between fchownat and close in cases where they target the same socket file descriptor, related to the sock_close and sockfs_setattr functions. fchownat does not increment the file descriptor reference count, which allows close to set the socket to NULL during fchownat's execution, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and system crash.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12232, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6d8c50dcb029872b298eea68cc6209c866fd3e14, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6d8c50dcb029872b298eea68cc6209c866fd3e14, https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/5/14, https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/926519/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3752-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3752-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3752-3, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12232

    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 -4.15.0-1022.22~16.04.1

    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