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CVE-2018-14611
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-07-27T04:29:00.327 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:41:17.080

Summary

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.10. There is a use-after-free in try_merge_free_space() when mounting a crafted btrfs image, because of a lack of chunk type flag checks in btrfs_check_chunk_valid in fs/btrfs/volumes.c.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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