Out-of-Bounds Affecting kernel-devel-azure package, versions <4.12.14-8.13.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELDEVELAZURE-2740152
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed6 Aug 2019

Introduced: 6 Aug 2019

CVE-2018-20855  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 kernel-devel-azure to version 4.12.14-8.13.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-devel-azure package and not the kernel-devel-azure package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.18.7. In create_qp_common in drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c, mlx5_ib_create_qp_resp was never initialized, resulting in a leak of stack memory to userspace.

CVSS Scores

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