THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-10938
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2018-10938

Linux Kernel vulnerability

CVSS
5.9
EPSS
5.0%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
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 vendor
Linux
Affected product
Linux Kernel
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)
Published
2018-08-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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