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Medium USN-3742-1 5 CVEs

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Published Aug 14, 2018 · Updated Jun 1, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU
core may be exposed to a malicious process that is executing on the CPU
core. This vulnerability is also known as L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF). A local
attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to expose sensitive
information (memory from other guests or the host OS). (CVE-2018-3646)

It was discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU
core may be exposed to a malicious process that is executing on the CPU
core. This vulnerability is also known as L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF). A local
attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (memory from the
kernel or other processes). (CVE-2018-3620)

Andrey Konovalov discovered an out-of-bounds read in the POSIX
timers subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use
this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or expose sensitive
information. (CVE-2017-18344)

Juha-Matti Tilli discovered that the TCP implementation in the Linux kernel
performed algorithmically expensive operations in some situations when
handling incoming packets. A remote attacker could use this to cause a
denial of service. (CVE-2018-5390)

Juha-Matti Tilli discovered that the IP implementation in the Linux kernel
performed algorithmically expensive operations in some situations when
handling incoming packet fragments. A remote attacker could use this to
cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-5391)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS linux 3.13.0-155.205

Vulnerabilities 5

  • Medium 5.6

    Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and address translations may allow unauthorized disclosure…

  • Medium 5.6

    Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and address translations may allow unauthorized disclosure…

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2017-18344 Public exploit

    The timer_create syscall implementation in kernel/time/posix-timers.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 doesn't properl…

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2018-5390 EPSS 72%

    Linux kernel versions 4.9+ can be forced to make very expensive calls to tcp_collapse_ofo_queue() and tcp_prune_ofo_queue() for every incoming packet which can lead to a denial of service

    Linux kernel versions 4.9+ can be forced to make very expensive calls to tcp_collapse_ofo_queue() and tcp_prune_ofo_queue() for every incoming packet which can lead to a denial of service.

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2018-5391 Public exploit EPSS 32%

    The Linux kernel, versions 3.9+, IP implementation is vulnerable to denial of service conditions with low rates of specially modified packets

    The Linux kernel, versions 3.9+, is vulnerable to a denial of service attack with low rates of specially modified packets targeting IP fragment re-assembly. An attacker may cause a denial of service condition by sending specially crafted IP fragments. Various…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-18344
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-3620
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-3646
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5390
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5391