CVE-2018-1130

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2018-03-07
CWE:
CWE-476
Bugzilla:
1576419: CVE-2018-1130 kernel: a null pointer dereference in net/dccp/output.c:dccp_write_xmit() leads to a system crash
A null pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit() function in net/dccp/output.c in the Linux kernel allows a local user to cause a denial of service by a number of certain crafted system calls.

Find out more about CVE-2018-1130 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 5.5
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (kernel) RHSA-2018:1854 2018-06-19

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 realtime-kernel Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel-rt Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel-alt Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Evgenii Shatokhin (Virtuozzo Team) for reporting this issue.

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