Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004730
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Aug 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Aug 2019

CVE-2017-18550  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. An issue was discovered in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13. There is potential exposure of kernel stack memory because aac_get_hba_info does not initialize the hbainfo structure.

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