CVE-2018-1092

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-04-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The ext4_iget function in fs/ext4/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.15 mishandles the case of a root directory with a zero i_links_count, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (ext4_process_freed_data NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted ext4 image.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 4.15.15

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/03/29/1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199179
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199275
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560777
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/commit/?id=8e4b5eae5decd9dfe5a4ee369c22028f90ab4c44
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-1/

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