CVE-2018-1000199: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Linux Kernel version 3.18 contains a dangerous feature vulnerability in modify_user_hw_breakpoint() that can result in crash and possibly memory corruption. This attack appear to be exploitable via local code execution and the ability to use ptrace. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in git commit f67b15037a7a50c57f72e69a6d59941ad90a0f0f.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: version 3.18 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 7.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-05-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.