CVE-2018-18397
lowpriority · track · 22OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.005 · 43 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
The userfaultfd implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.19.7 mishandles access control for certain UFFDIO_ ioctl calls, as demonstrated by allowing local users to write data into holes in a tmpfs file (if the user has read-only access to that file, and that file contains holes), related to fs/userfaultfd.c and mm/userfaultfd.c.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.1–5.5
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affected products (54)
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references (50)
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- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=29ec90660d68bbdd69507c1c8b4e33aa299278b1cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0163cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0202cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0324cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0831cnnvd
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1700cnnvd
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.87cnnvd
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