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Information Exposure Affecting kernel-doc package, versions <0:3.10.0-1062.el7

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELDOC-1509729
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 26 Apr 2018
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Introduced: 26 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-16658 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-200 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 kernel-doc to version 0:3.10.0-1062.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2029.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc 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 4.18.6. An information leak in cdrom_ioctl_drive_status in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c could be used by local attackers to read kernel memory because a cast from unsigned long to int interferes with bounds checking. This is similar to CVE-2018-10940.