Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-1000200 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Linux Kernel 4.14/4.15/4.16
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
The Linux Kernel versions 4.14, 4.15, and 4.16 has a null pointer dereference which can result in an out of memory (OOM) killing of large mlocked processes. The issue arises from an oom killed process's final thread calling exit_mmap(), which calls munlock_vma_pages_all() for mlocked vmas.This can happen synchronously with the oom reaper's unmap_page_range() since the vma's VM_LOCKED bit is cleared before munlocking (to determine if any other vmas share the memory and are mlocked).
Vulnerable Configurations
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Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3752-2.NASL description USN-3752-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It was discovered that, when attempting to handle an out-of-memory situation, a NULL pointer dereference could be triggered in the Linux kernel in some circumstances. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-1000200) Wen Xu discovered that the XFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate meta-data information. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious xfs image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-10323) Wen Xu discovered that the XFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate xattr information. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious xfs image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-10840) Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly keep meta-data information consistent in some situations. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-10881) Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 filesystem that caused a denial of service (system crash) when mounted. (CVE-2018-1093) Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 112110 published 2018-08-24 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/112110 title Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : linux-hwe vulnerabilities (USN-3752-2) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3752-3.NASL description It was discovered that, when attempting to handle an out-of-memory situation, a NULL pointer dereference could be triggered in the Linux kernel in some circumstances. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-1000200) Wen Xu discovered that the XFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate meta-data information. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious xfs image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-10323) Wen Xu discovered that the XFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate xattr information. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious xfs image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-10840) Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly keep meta-data information consistent in some situations. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-10881) Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 filesystem that caused a denial of service (system crash) when mounted. (CVE-2018-1093) Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 112189 published 2018-08-30 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/112189 title Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : linux-azure, linux-oem, linux-gcp vulnerabilities (USN-3752-3) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-762.NASL description The openSUSE Leap 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-13406: An integer overflow in the uvesafb_setcmap function could have result in local attackers being able to crash the kernel or potentially elevate privileges because kmalloc_array is not used (bnc#1100418) - CVE-2018-13053: The alarm_timer_nsleep function had an integer overflow via a large relative timeout because ktime_add_safe was not used (bnc#1099924) - CVE-2018-9385: Prevent overread of the last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-07-30 plugin id 111414 published 2018-07-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/111414 title openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-762) (Spectre) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-2092-1.NASL description The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following new feature was added : - NVDIMM memory error notification (ACPI 6.2) The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-13406: An integer overflow in the uvesafb_setcmap function could have result in local attackers being able to crash the kernel or potentially elevate privileges because kmalloc_array is not used (bnc#1100418) - CVE-2018-13053: The alarm_timer_nsleep function had an integer overflow via a large relative timeout because ktime_add_safe was not used (bnc#1099924) - CVE-2018-9385: Prevent overread of the last seen 2020-03-21 modified 2019-01-02 plugin id 120067 published 2019-01-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120067 title SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2092-1) (Spectre) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2018-2948.NASL description An update for kernel-alt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The kernel-alt packages provide the Linux kernel version 4.x. Security Fix(es) : * An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory read from address to which a recent memory write has occurred may see an older value and subsequently cause an update into the microprocessor last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118513 published 2018-10-31 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118513 title RHEL 7 : kernel-alt (RHSA-2018:2948) (Spectre) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3752-1.NASL description It was discovered that, when attempting to handle an out-of-memory situation, a NULL pointer dereference could be triggered in the Linux kernel in some circumstances. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-1000200) Wen Xu discovered that the XFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate meta-data information. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious xfs image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-10323) Wen Xu discovered that the XFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate xattr information. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious xfs image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-10840) Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly keep meta-data information consistent in some situations. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-10881) Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 filesystem that caused a denial of service (system crash) when mounted. (CVE-2018-1093) Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 112109 published 2018-08-24 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/112109 title Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3752-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2019-536.NASL description The openSUSE Leap 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-13406: An integer overflow in the uvesafb_setcmap function could have result in local attackers being able to crash the kernel or potentially elevate privileges because kmalloc_array is not used (bnc#1100418) - CVE-2018-13053: The alarm_timer_nsleep function had an integer overflow via a large relative timeout because ktime_add_safe was not used (bnc#1099924) - CVE-2018-9385: Prevent overread of the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 123226 published 2019-03-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123226 title openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-536) (Spectre)
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=27ae357fa82be5ab73b2ef8d39dcb8ca2563483a
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-1000200
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/67
- https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152460926619256
- https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152400522806945
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104397
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3752-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3752-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3752-3/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948