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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2018-25020 – Linux Kernel Vulnerability

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

 CVE-2018-25020

Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the BPF subsystem when there is a long jump over an instruction sequence. By executing a specially-crafted program, a local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition on the system.

Impact

  • Buffer Overflow

Affected Vendors

Linux

Affected Products

  • Linux Kernel 4.16

Remediation

Upgrade to the latest version of Linux Kernel, available from the Linux Kernel GIT Repository.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/050fad7c4534c13c8eb1d9c2ba66012e014773cb