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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-11-26T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:32:54.234Z

Reserved: 2018-09-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-16862

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-11-26T19:29:00.327

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:53:28.293

Link: CVE-2018-16862

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-11-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-16862 - Bugzilla