CVE-2018-8043

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CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p32

Published

Mar 10, 2018 (Mar 10, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The unimac_mdio_probe function in drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.8 does not validate certain resource availability, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference).

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

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