UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14617

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14617

    Published: 27 Jul 2018Last Modified: 9 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-14617
    Aliases:
    USN-3821-1
    USN-3821-2
    USN-4094-1

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.10. There is a NULL pointer dereference and panic in hfsplus_lookup() in fs/hfsplus/dir.c when opening a file (that is purportedly a hard link) in an hfs+ filesystem that has malformed catalog data, and is mounted read-only without a metadata directory.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-14617, https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297, https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg130021.html, 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-2018-14617

    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
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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