CVEs-PoC/2018/CVE-2018-10840.md

### [CVE-2018-10840](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10840)
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### Description

Linux kernel is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the fs/ext4/xattr.c:ext4_xattr_set_entry() function. An attacker could exploit this by operating on a mounted crafted ext4 image.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10840

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.