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Debian: CVE-2018-7492: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-7492: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/26/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/02/2018
Modified
02/18/2020

Description

A NULL pointer dereference was found in the net/rds/rdma.c __rds_rdma_map() function in the Linux kernel before 4.14.7 allowing local attackers to cause a system panic and a denial-of-service, related to RDS_GET_MR and RDS_GET_MR_FOR_DEST.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

References

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