VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-14646

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.39%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-11-26
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

The Linux kernel before 4.15-rc8 was found to be vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference bug in the __netlink_ns_capable() function in the net/netlink/af_netlink.c file. A local attacker could exploit this when a net namespace with a netnsid is assigned to cause a kernel panic and a denial of service.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references