UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5333

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5333

    Published: 11 Jan 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-5333
    Aliases:
    USN-3583-1
    USN-3583-2
    USN-3617-1

    Summary:

    Details: In the Linux kernel through 4.14.13, the rds_cmsg_atomic function in net/rds/rdma.c mishandles cases where page pinning fails or an invalid address is supplied, leading to an rds_atomic_free_op NULL pointer dereference.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5333, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7d11f77f84b27cef452cee332f4e469503084737, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7d11f77f84b27cef452cee332f4e469503084737, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3583-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3583-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3617-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3617-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3617-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3619-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3619-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3632-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5333

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-142.191

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    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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