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CVE-2018-10876

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-07-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

A flaw was found in Linux kernel in the ext4 filesystem code. A use-after-free is possible in ext4_ext_remove_space() function when mounting and operating a crafted ext4 image.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Linux kernel: all versions

References

• http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/929239/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104904
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106503
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0525
• https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199403
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10876
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8844618d8aa7a9973e7b527d038a2a589665002c
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3753-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3753-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-3/

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