High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Aug 15, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-14722

Description

An issue was discovered in evaluate_auto_mountpoint in btrfsmaintenance-functions in btrfsmaintenance through 0.4.1. Code execution as root can occur via a specially crafted filesystem label if btrfs-{scrub,balance,trim} are set to auto in /etc/sysconfig/btrfsmaintenance (this is not the default, though).

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Affected products

btrfsmaintenance/btrfsmaintenancellm-fuzzy
Range: <=0.4.1
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/btrfsmaintenance&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 0.5-2.5

Patches

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References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/14/7nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/27/7nvd
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/28/1nvd
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/28/2nvd

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