CVE-2018-14610
Moderate
CVE-2018-14610
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.10. There is out-of-bounds access in write_extent_buffer() when mounting and operating a crafted btrfs image, because of a lack of verification that each block group has a corresponding chunk at mount time, within btrfs_read_block_groups in fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c.
Exploit probability
2.5%
Published
July 27, 2018
Required by
Not available
Last source change
March 15, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2018-14610
View original source
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.10. There is out-of-bounds access in write_extent_buffer() when mounting and operating a crafted btrfs image, because of a lack of verification that each block group has a corresponding chunk at mount time, within btrfs_read_block_groups in fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104917
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199837
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html
- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10503415/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3932-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3932-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/