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CVE-2018-10882

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-07-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bound write in in fs/jbd2/transaction.c code, a denial of service, and a system crash by unmounting a crafted ext4 filesystem image.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Linux kernel: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106503
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948
• https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200069
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10882
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c37e9e013469521d9adb932d17a1795c139b36db
• 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/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-4/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3871-5/

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