Security Advisory
CVE-2018-14617
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.10. There is a NULL pointer dereference and panic in hfsplus_lookup() in fs/hfsplus/dir.c when opening a file (that is purportedly a hard link) in an hfs+ filesystem that has malformed catalog data, and is mounted read-only without a metadata directory.
Published Date
July 27, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory