CVE-2018-10876

A flaw was found in Linux kernel in the ext4 filesystem code. A use-after-free is possible in ext4extremovespace function when mounting and operating a crafted ext4 image...

Linux ext4: out-of-bounds memcpy via non-inline system.data xattr(CVE-2018-11412)

ext4 can store data for small regular files as "inline data", meaning that the data is stored inside the corresponding inode instead of in separate blocks. Inline data is stored in two places: The first 60 bytes go in the iblock field in the inode which normally contains a list of blocks instead,...

USN-1704-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities

Brad Spengler discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's uname system call. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to read kernel stack memory. CVE-2012-0957 Jon Howell reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based virtual machine subsystem's handling of the XSAVE feature. On hosts,...