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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-20836: kernel security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-20836: kernel security update

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/07/2019
Created
06/28/2019
Added
06/27/2019
Modified
08/15/2019

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.20. There is a race condition in smp_task_timedout() and smp_task_done() in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c, leading to a use-after-free.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-kernel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-kernel-headers
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-kernel-tools
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-perf
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-python-perf

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