CVE-2018-13053

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-07-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

The alarm_timer_nsleep function in kernel/time/alarmtimer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3 has an integer overflow via a large relative timeout because ktime_add_safe is not used.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
Linux kernel: through 4.17.3

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104671
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0831
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200303
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=5f936e19cc0ef97dbe3a56e9498922ad5ba1edef
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3821-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3821-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/

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