CVE-2018-10940 (NVD)

2018-05-09

The cdrom_ioctl_media_changed function in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16.6 allows local attackers to use a incorrect bounds check in the CDROM driver CDROM_MEDIA_CHANGED ioctl to read out kernel memory.

Products Debian_linux, Linux_kernel
Type Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119)
First patch https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9de4ee40547fd315d4a0ed1dd15a2fa3559ad707
Relevant file/s ./drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c (modified, +1, -1)
Links • http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9de4ee40547fd315d4a0ed1dd15a2fa3559ad707
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3695-1/
• https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.16.6
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00016.html

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