CVE-2018-7480

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7480
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-7480.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-7480
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-02-25T20:29:00.217Z
Modified
2026-02-24T11:32:50.302137Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The blkcginitqueue function in block/blk-cgroup.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a creation failure.

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
9b54d816e00425c3a517514e0d677bb3cec49258
Introduced
c470abd4fde40ea6a0846a2beab642a578c0b8cd
Fixed
a351e9b9fc24e982ec2f0e76379a49826036da12

Affected versions

v4.*
v4.10

Database specific

source 
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vanir_signatures 
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