CVE-2018-18386 (GCVE-0-2018-18386)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-17 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
drivers/tty/n_tty.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.11 allows local attackers (who are able to access pseudo terminals) to hang/block further usage of any pseudo terminal devices due to an EXTPROC versus ICANON confusion in TIOCINQ.
Severity
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
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|---|---|
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3849-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094825 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3849-2/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/Chan… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/966031f3… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torva… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0831 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
Date Public
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"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2018-18386.json",
"version": "21"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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