Out-of-Bounds Affecting kernel-abi-whitelists package, versions <0:3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELABIWHITELISTS-4954981
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed26 Jul 2019

Introduced: 26 Jul 2019

CVE-2018-20856  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 kernel-abi-whitelists to version 0:3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:3055.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-abi-whitelists package and not the kernel-abi-whitelists package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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.