CVE-2018-14617

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

3%p84

Published

Jul 27, 2018 (Jul 27, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.10. There is a NULL pointer dereference and panic in hfsplus_lookup() in fs/hfsplus/dir.c when opening a file (that is purportedly a hard link) in an hfs+ filesystem that has malformed catalog data, and is mounted read-only without a metadata directory.

Vendors: linux debian canonical
Products: linux kernel, debian linux, ubuntu linux
Weakness: CWE-476
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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