Memory Corruption and Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2018-13095 · MEDIUM Severity

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An issue was discovered in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3. A denial of service (memory corruption and BUG) can occur for a corrupted xfs image upon encountering an inode that is in extent format, but has more extents than fit in the inode fork.

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