Security Advisory

CVE-2018-5873

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-07-06 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-17 01:20:54
Assigner qualcomm
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

An issue was discovered in the __ns_get_path function in fs/nsfs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11. Due to a race condition when accessing files, a Use After Free condition can occur. This also affects all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before security patch level 2018-07-05.