CVE-2018-6557

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6557
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6557.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-6557
Downstream
Published
2018-08-21T16:29:00.637Z
Modified
2026-03-14T14:20:05.490378Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The MOTD update script in the base-files package in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS before 10.1ubuntu2.2, and Ubuntu 18.10 before 10.1ubuntu6 incorrectly handled temporary files. A local attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly escalate privileges if kernel symlink restrictions were disabled.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6557.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "10.1ubuntu2.2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "18.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "18.10"
            }
        ]
    }
]