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CVE-2018-10902 Detail

Description

It was found that the raw midi kernel driver does not protect against concurrent access which leads to a double realloc (double free) in snd_rawmidi_input_params() and snd_rawmidi_output_status() which are part of snd_rawmidi_ioctl() handler in rawmidi.c file. A malicious local attacker could possibly use this for privilege escalation.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105119 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041529 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0415 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0641 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3217 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3967 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10902 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=39675f7a7c7e7702f7d5341f1e0d01db746543a0 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-1/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3776-2/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-1/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-2/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3847-3/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3849-1/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3849-2/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-415 Double Free cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-416 Use After Free Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-10902
NVD Published Date:
08/21/2018
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2024
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.