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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Apr 2018
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 3
Type: Bug-Security



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CVE-2018-8043 CrOS: Vulnerability reported in Linux kernel

Project Member Reported by vomit.go...@appspot.gserviceaccount.com, Apr 10 2018

Issue description

VOMIT (go/vomit) has received an external vulnerability report for the Linux kernel. 

Advisory: CVE-2018-8043
  Details: http://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2018-8043
  CVSS severity score: 2.1/10.0
  Description:

The unimac_mdio_probe function in drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.8 does not validate certain resource availability, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference).



This bug was filed by http://go/vomit
Please contact us at vomit-team@google.com if you need any assistance.

 

Comment 1 by groeck@chromium.org, Apr 10 2018

Cc: wonderfly@google.com zsm@chromium.org
Labels: Security_Severity-Low Security_Impact-None Pri-3
Owner: groeck@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
BCM_UNIMAC is not enabled in chromeos or Lakitu images. We'll pick up the fix through stable release merges if/when available.

Cc: edjee@google.com

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