CVE-2018-13098

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% 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-125

Description

An issue was discovered in fs/f2fs/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3. A denial of service (slab out-of-bounds read and BUG) can occur for a modified f2fs filesystem image in which FI_EXTRA_ATTR is set in an inode.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 4.17.3

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-10/msg00033.html
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200173
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=76d56d4ab4f2a9e4f085c7d77172194ddaccf7d2
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-10/msg00033.html
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200173
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=76d56d4ab4f2a9e4f085c7d77172194ddaccf7d2
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/

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