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CVE-2018-13098 json

An issue was discovered in fs/f2fs/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3.

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-5047

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in fs/f2fs/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3. A denial of service (slab out-of-bounds read and BUG) can occur for a modified f2fs filesystem image in which FI_EXTRA_ATTR is set in an inode.

Patch / fix

  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.18.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-13098

  • linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-58.64
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1047.49
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-1040.42~16.04.1
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1040.42
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-58.64~16.04.1
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1042.42
  • linux-oem Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1050.57
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-1055.60

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13098

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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red hat product security vex CVE-2018-13098 updated cvss 5.0

kernel: slab out-of-bounds read in fs/f2fs/inode.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-alt, python-perf, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-core, kernel-tools, python3-perf, +17 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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