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CVE-2018-10883

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-10883 is a medium-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem, affecting Canonical, Debian, Linux, and Red Hat distributions. A local attacker can trigger an out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() by mounting and manipulating a specially crafted ext4 filesystem image. This can lead to a denial of service and system crash. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 4.9.110CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.8MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.5
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0053 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-957.rt56.910.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: kernel-alt-0:4.14.0-115.el7a
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: kernel-0:3.10.0-957.el7
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2Fixed in: realtime-kernel

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-10883Low

kernel: stack-out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata function

Jun 14, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2948
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3083
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3096
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
git.kernel.org / pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit
PatchVendor Advisory
git.kernel.org / pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit
PatchVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00020.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
support.f5.com / csp/article/K94735334
usn.ubuntu.com / 3871-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3871-3
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3871-4
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3871-5
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3879-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3879-2
Third Party Advisory