CVE-2018-16862 (GCVE-0-2018-16862)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-11-26 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:32
CWE
Summary
A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel in a way that the cleancache subsystem clears an inode after the final file truncation (removal). The new file created with the same inode may contain leftover pages from cleancache and the old file data instead of the new one.
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106009 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/169 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1011367/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16862 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
[UNKNOWN] kernel: Version: n/a
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