Use After Free Affecting linux-4.9 package, versions <4.9.168-1+deb9u5~deb8u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LINUX49-459257
  • published26 Jul 2019
  • disclosed26 Jul 2019

Introduced: 26 Jul 2019

CVE-2018-20856  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 linux-4.9 to version 4.9.168-1+deb9u5~deb8u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-4.9 package and not the linux-4.9 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.18.7. In block/blk-core.c, there is an __blk_drain_queue() use-after-free because a certain error case is mishandled.

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