Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.18.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006510
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Jul 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jul 2019

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

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.18.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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 Base Scores

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