What is CVE-2018-10074?

CVE-2018-10074 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux Kernel, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-04-12.

How severe is CVE-2018-10074?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

NULL pointer dereference in Linux Kernel

CVE-2018-10074

The hi3660_stub_clk_probe function in drivers/clk/hisilicon/clk-hi3660-stub.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by triggering a failure of resource retrieval.

Published 2018-04-12 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (21.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 22nd percentile — 21.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Linux Kernel

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/ (Patch)
github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9903e41ae1f5d50c93f268ca3304d4d7c64b9311 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-10074?: CVE-2018-10074 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux Kernel, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-04-12.
How severe is CVE-2018-10074?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.