CVE-2018-12232

MediumCVSS 5.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In net/socket.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.1, there is a race condition between fchownat and close in cases where they target the same socket file descriptor, related to the sock_close and sockfs_setattr functions. fchownat does not increment the file descriptor reference count, which allows close to set the socket to NULL during fchownat's execution, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and system crash.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.9/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
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References

Timeline

Published
Jun 12, 2018
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2018-12232: Medium severity, CVSS 5.9 | Vulnix