CVE-2018-5814 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting various Linux kernel versions (before 4.16.11, 4.14.43, 4.9.102, and 4.4.133), including those in Canonical and Debian distributions. It involves multiple race conditions during USB over IP operations, which can lead to a use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.0 (HIGH), indicating that a local attacker with low privileges can exploit it with high attack complexity to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.4.133CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.5, <= 4.9.102CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.10, <= 4.14.43CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.15, <= 4.16.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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