| Name | CVE-2018-12896 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3. An Integer Overflow in kernel/time/posix-timers.c in the POSIX timer code is caused by the way the overrun accounting works. Depending on interval and expiry time values, the overrun can be larger than INT_MAX, but the accounting is int based. This basically makes the accounting values, which are visible to user space via timer_getoverrun(2) and siginfo::si_overrun, random. For example, a local user can cause a denial of service (signed integer overflow) via crafted mmap, futex, timer_create, and timer_settime system calls. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1715-1, DLA-1731-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux (PTS) | bullseye | 5.10.223-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.226-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 6.1.115-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.119-1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 6.12.5-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 6.12.6-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux | source | jessie | 3.16.64-1 | DLA-1731-1 | ||
| linux | source | stretch | 4.9.144-1 | |||
| linux | source | (unstable) | 4.18.20-1 | |||
| linux-4.9 | source | jessie | 4.9.144-3.1~deb8u1 | DLA-1715-1 |
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200189
https://github.com/lcytxw/bug_repro/tree/master/bug_200189
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/78c9c4dfbf8c04883941445a195276bb4bb92c76