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F5 Networks: K48073202 (CVE-2017-18551): Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2017-18551

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F5 Networks: K48073202 (CVE-2017-18551): Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2017-18551

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/19/2019
Created
10/12/2019
Added
10/11/2019
Modified
08/25/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.15. There is an out of bounds write in the function i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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