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CVE-2018-16658

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.18.6. An information leak in cdrom_ioctl_drive_status in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c could be used by local attackers to read kernel memory because a cast from unsigned long to int interferes with bounds checking. This is similar to CVE-2018-10940.

POC

Reference

- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3797-2/

- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3820-1/

- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3822-1/

Github

- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon