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Medium severity6.6NVD Advisory· Published Jul 16, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-10840

CVE-2018-10840

Description

Linux kernel is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the fs/ext4/xattr.c:ext4_xattr_set_entry() function. An attacker could exploit this by operating on a mounted crafted ext4 image.

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