CVE-2018-12896

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12896
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-12896.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-12896
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-07-02T17:29:00.660Z
Modified
2026-02-11T07:26:15.197397Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3. An Integer Overflow in kernel/time/posix-timers.c in the POSIX timer code is caused by the way the overrun accounting works. Depending on interval and expiry time values, the overrun can be larger than INTMAX, but the accounting is int based. This basically makes the accounting values, which are visible to user space via timergetoverrun(2) and siginfo::sioverrun, random. For example, a local user can cause a denial of service (signed integer overflow) via crafted mmap, futex, timercreate, and timer_settime system calls.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/torvalds/linux

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Affected versions

v2.*
v2.6.12
v2.6.12-rc2
v2.6.12-rc3
v2.6.12-rc4
v2.6.12-rc5
v2.6.12-rc6
v2.6.13
v2.6.13-rc1
v2.6.13-rc2
v2.6.13-rc3
v2.6.13-rc4
v2.6.13-rc5
v2.6.13-rc6
v2.6.13-rc7
v2.6.14
v2.6.14-rc1
v2.6.14-rc2
v2.6.14-rc3
v2.6.14-rc4
v2.6.14-rc5
v2.6.15
v2.6.15-rc1
v2.6.15-rc2
v2.6.15-rc3
v2.6.15-rc4
v2.6.15-rc5
v2.6.15-rc6
v2.6.15-rc7
v2.6.16
v2.6.16-rc1
v2.6.16-rc2
v2.6.16-rc3
v2.6.16-rc4
v2.6.16-rc5
v2.6.16-rc6
v2.6.17
v2.6.17-rc1
v2.6.17-rc2
v2.6.17-rc3
v2.6.17-rc4
v2.6.17-rc5
v2.6.17-rc6
v2.6.18
v2.6.18-rc1
v2.6.18-rc2
v2.6.18-rc3
v2.6.18-rc4
v2.6.18-rc5
v2.6.18-rc6
v2.6.18-rc7
v2.6.19
v2.6.19-rc1
v2.6.19-rc2
v2.6.19-rc3
v2.6.19-rc4
v2.6.19-rc5
v2.6.19-rc6
v2.6.20
v2.6.20-rc1
v2.6.20-rc2
v2.6.20-rc3
v2.6.20-rc4
v2.6.20-rc5
v2.6.20-rc6
v2.6.20-rc7
v2.6.21
v2.6.21-rc1
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v2.6.21-rc3
v2.6.21-rc4
v2.6.21-rc5
v2.6.21-rc6
v2.6.21-rc7
v2.6.22
v2.6.22-rc1
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v2.6.22-rc3
v2.6.22-rc4
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v2.6.26
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v2.6.26-rc4
v2.6.26-rc5
v2.6.26-rc6
v2.6.26-rc7
v2.6.26-rc8
v2.6.26-rc9
v2.6.27
v2.6.27-rc1
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v2.6.27-rc4
v2.6.27-rc5
v2.6.27-rc6
v2.6.27-rc7
v2.6.27-rc8
v2.6.27-rc9
v2.6.28
v2.6.28-rc1
v2.6.28-rc2
v2.6.28-rc3
v2.6.28-rc4
v2.6.28-rc5
v2.6.28-rc6
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v2.6.32
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v2.6.32-rc4
v2.6.32-rc5
v2.6.32-rc6
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v2.6.32-rc8
v2.6.33
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v2.6.33-rc4
v2.6.33-rc5
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v2.6.34
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v2.6.39-rc5
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v3.*
v3.0
v3.0-rc1
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v3.0-rc4
v3.0-rc5
v3.0-rc6
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v3.1
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v3.10
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v3.11
v3.11-rc1
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v3.11-rc6
v3.11-rc7
v3.12
v3.12-rc1
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v3.12-rc3
v3.12-rc4
v3.12-rc5
v3.12-rc6
v3.12-rc7
v3.13
v3.13-rc1
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v3.13-rc3
v3.13-rc4
v3.13-rc5
v3.13-rc6
v3.13-rc7
v3.13-rc8
v3.14
v3.14-rc1
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v3.14-rc3
v3.14-rc4
v3.14-rc5
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v3.19
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v3.2
v3.2-rc1
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v3.2-rc5
v3.2-rc6
v3.2-rc7
v3.3
v3.3-rc1
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v3.3-rc3
v3.3-rc4
v3.3-rc5
v3.3-rc6
v3.3-rc7
v3.4
v3.4-rc1
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v3.4-rc3
v3.4-rc4
v3.4-rc5
v3.4-rc6
v3.4-rc7
v3.5
v3.5-rc1
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v3.5-rc6
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v3.6
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