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Tracker / CVE-2018-14609

CVE-2018-14609

Medium 5.5

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.10. There is an invalid pointer dereference in __del_reloc_root() in fs/btrfs/relocation.c when mounting a crafted btrfs image, related to removing reloc rb_trees when reloc control has not been initialized.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.17.10

Analysis

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