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An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 2, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 27, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Last updated Feb 2, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

0.084%
(38th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-14617

GHSA ID

GHSA-qwp3-c8jm-p6v6

Source code

No known source code

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