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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-20856: kernel security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-20856: kernel security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/26/2019
Created
12/05/2019
Added
12/04/2019
Modified
03/05/2020

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)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-kernel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-kernel-debug
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-kernel-headers
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-kernel-tools
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-perf
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-python-perf

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