UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16597

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16597

    Published: 21 Sept 2018Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-16597

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.8. Incorrect access checking in overlayfs mounts could be used by local attackers to modify or truncate files in the underlying filesystem.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16597, https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106512, https://git.kernel.org/linus/c0ca3d70e8d3cf81e2255a217f7ca402f5ed0862, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=eea2fb4851e9dcbab6b991aaf47e2e024f1f55a0, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16597

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-aws

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.4.0-1002.2

    Affected versions

    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