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CVE-2018-10938

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel present since v4.0-rc1 and through v4.13-rc4.

Impact

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel present since v4.0-rc1 and through v4.13-rc4. A crafted network packet sent remotely by an attacker may force the kernel to enter an infinite loop in the cipso_v4_optptr() function in net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c leading to a denial-of-service. A certain non-default configuration of LSM (Linux Security Module) and NetLabel should be set up on a system before an attacker could leverage this flaw.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
Versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 14.04, 16.04
DebianDebian Linux
Version 9.0

Weakness classification

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