CVSS 3.0
5.9 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2018-12232
Medium (5.9) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In net/socket.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.1, there is a race condition between fchownat and close in cases where they target the same socket file descriptor, related to the sock_close and sockfs_setattr functions. fchownat does not increment the file descriptor reference count, which allows close to set the socket to NULL during fchownat's execution, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and system crash.
Severity
- EPSS
- 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6d8c50dcb029872b298eea68cc6209c866fd3e14
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104453
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6d8c50dcb029872b298eea68cc6209c866fd3e14
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/5/14