Published: 26/11/2018 Updated: 01/04/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 187

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel in a way that the cleancache subsystem clears an inode after the final file truncation (removal). The new file created with the same inode may contain leftover pages from cleancache and the old file data instead of the new one.

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Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...

A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel in a way that the cleancache subsystem clears an inode after the final file truncation (removal) The new file created with the same inode may contain leftover pages from cleancache and the old file data instead of the new one(CVE-2018-16862) An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 419 An ...

A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel in a way that the cleancache subsystem clears an inode after the final file truncation (removal) The new file created with the same inode may contain leftover pages from cleancache and the old file data instead of the new one ...

CWE-200 https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/169 https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1011367/https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16862 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106009 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-1/https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/4094-1/https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/3879-2/

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