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Debian: CVE-2018-20856: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-20856: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/26/2019
Created
08/15/2019
Added
08/14/2019
Modified
07/07/2020

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

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