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GHSA-w7cq-36jp-q6wg
GHSA-w7cq-36jp-q6wg
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7 HIGH
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 14, 2022
An issue was discovered in the __ns_get_path function in fs/nsfs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11. Due to a race condition when accessing files, a Use After Free condition can occur. This also affects all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before security patch level 2018-07-05.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
7
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Timeline
- May 14, 2022 CVE Published
- May 1, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-07-01 url
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=073c516ff73557a8f7315066856c04b50383ac34 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5873 advisory
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.9/commit/?id=34742aaf7cb16c95edba4a7afed6d2c4fa7e434b url
- https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/07/02/july-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin url
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/073c516ff73557a8f7315066856c04b50383ac34 fix