CVE-2018-13095

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-07-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3. A denial of service (memory corruption and BUG) can occur for a corrupted xfs image upon encountering an inode that is in extent format, but has more extents than fit in the inode fork.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 4.17.3

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1350
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199915
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=23fcb3340d033d9f081e21e6c12c2db7eaa541d3
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/23fcb3340d033d9f081e21e6c12c2db7eaa541d3
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1350
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199915
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=23fcb3340d033d9f081e21e6c12c2db7eaa541d3
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/23fcb3340d033d9f081e21e6c12c2db7eaa541d3

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