CVE-2018-12896 (GCVE-0-2018-12896)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-02 17:00
Modified
2024-08-05 08:45
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3. An Integer Overflow in kernel/time/posix-timers.c in the POSIX timer code is caused by the way the overrun accounting works. Depending on interval and expiry time values, the overrun can be larger than INT_MAX, but the accounting is int based. This basically makes the accounting values, which are visible to user space via timer_getoverrun(2) and siginfo::si_overrun, random. For example, a local user can cause a denial of service (signed integer overflow) via crafted mmap, futex, timer_create, and timer_settime system calls.
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