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CVE-2018-1000199

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-05-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The Linux Kernel version 3.18 contains a dangerous feature vulnerability in modify_user_hw_breakpoint() that can result in crash and possibly memory corruption. This attack appear to be exploitable via local code execution and the ability to use ptrace. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in git commit f67b15037a7a50c57f72e69a6d59941ad90a0f0f.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• Linux kernel: 3.18
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00022.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040806
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1318
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1345
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1347
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1348
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1354
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1355
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1374
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html
• https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/6/813
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3641-1/

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