CVE Catalog

CVE-2018-10902

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.52%

41th percentile - higher than 41% of all known CVEs

Summary

The raw MIDI kernel driver lacks protection against concurrent access, causing a double free in snd_rawmidi_input_params() and snd_rawmidi_output_status() within the snd_rawmidi_ioctl() handler in rawmidi.c. A local attacker could exploit this for privilege escalation.

Risk Assessment

The organization faces the risk of local privilege escalation, potentially allowing an attacker to gain full control of the system or execute arbitrary code in kernel context.

Recommendation

Apply the security patch for the Linux kernel provided by your OS vendor immediately and reboot the system.

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Original NVD description (English source)

It was found that the raw midi kernel driver does not protect against concurrent access which leads to a double realloc (double free) in snd_rawmidi_input_params() and snd_rawmidi_output_status() which are part of snd_rawmidi_ioctl() handler in rawmidi.c file. A malicious local attacker could possibly use this for privilege escalation.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS