Explain CVE-2018-1068
A flaw was found in the Linux 4.x kernel's implementation of 32-bit syscall interface for bridging. This allowed a privileged user to arbitrarily write to a limited range of kernel memory.
Affected Products: Linux Kernel
References: [{'name': 'DSA-4187', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_DEBIAN'], 'url': 'https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187'}, {'name': 'USN-3654-1', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_UBUNTU'], 'url': 'https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-1/'}, {'name': 'USN-3674-1', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_UBUNTU'], 'url': 'https://usn.ubuntu.com/3674-1/'}, {'name': 'USN-3677-1', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_UBUNTU'], 'url': 'https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-1/'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1552048'}, {'name': 'DSA-4188', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_DEBIAN'], 'url': 'https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188'}, {'name': '[linux-netdev] 20180305 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in compat_copy_entries', 'tags': ['mailing-list', 'x_refsource_MLIST'], 'url': 'https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=152023808817590&w=2'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b71812168571fa55e44cdd0254471331b9c4c4c6'}, {'tags': ['x_refsource_CONFIRM'], 'url': 'https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b71812168571fa55e44cdd0254471331b9c4c4c6'}, {'name': 'USN-3674-2', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_UBUNTU'], 'url': 'https://usn.ubuntu.com/3674-2/'}, {'name': 'RHSA-2018:1355', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_REDHAT'], 'url': 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1355'}, {'name': 'RHSA-2018:2948', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_REDHAT'], 'url': 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948'}, {'name': '103459', 'tags': ['vdb-entry', 'x_refsource_BID'], 'url': 'http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103459'}, {'name': 'RHSA-2018:1318', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_REDHAT'], 'url': 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1318'}, {'name': 'USN-3677-2', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_UBUNTU'], 'url': 'https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-2/'}, {'name': 'USN-3654-2', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_UBUNTU'], 'url': 'https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-2/'}, {'name': '[linux-netdev] 20180305 [PATCH net] netfilter: check for out-of-bounds while copying compat entries', 'tags': ['mailing-list', 'x_refsource_MLIST'], 'url': 'https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=152025888924151&w=2'}, {'name': '[debian-lts-announce] 20180502 [SECURITY] [DLA 1369-1] linux security update', 'tags': ['mailing-list', 'x_refsource_MLIST'], 'url': 'https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html'}, {'name': 'USN-3656-1', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_UBUNTU'], 'url': 'https://usn.ubuntu.com/3656-1/'}, {'name': 'RHSA-2019:1170', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_REDHAT'], 'url': 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1170'}, {'name': 'RHSA-2019:1190', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_REDHAT'], 'url': 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1190'}, {'name': 'RHSA-2019:4159', 'tags': ['vendor-advisory', 'x_refsource_REDHAT'], 'url': 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4159'}]
CVE State: PUBLISHED