UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13053

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13053

    Published: 2 Jul 2018Last Modified: 9 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-13053
    Aliases:
    USN-3821-1
    USN-3821-2
    USN-4094-1

    Summary:

    Details: The alarm_timer_nsleep function in kernel/time/alarmtimer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3 has an integer overflow via a large relative timeout because ktime_add_safe is not used.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-13053, https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200303, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=5f936e19cc0ef97dbe3a56e9498922ad5ba1edef, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3821-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3821-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4094-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4118-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-13053

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-aws

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-aws?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.4.0-1034.37

    Affected versions

    4.4.0-1002.2
    4.4.0-1003.3
    4.4.0-1005.5
    4.4.0-1006.6
    4.4.0-1009.9
    4.4.0-1010.10
    4.4.0-1011.11
    4.4.0-1012.12
    4.4.0-1014.14
    4.4.0-1016.16
    4.4.0-1017.17
    4.4.0-1019.19
    4.4.0-1022.22
    4.4.0-1023.23
    4.4.0-1024.25
    4.4.0-1025.26
    4.4.0-1027.30
    4.4.0-1028.31
    4.4.0-1029.32
    4.4.0-1031.34
    4.4.0-1032.35

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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