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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-10689) ELSA-2019-2162: blktrace security update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-10689) ELSA-2019-2162: blktrace security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/03/2018
Created
07/23/2020
Added
07/21/2020
Modified
07/21/2020

Description

blktrace (aka Block IO Tracing) 1.2.0, as used with the Linux kernel and Android, has a buffer overflow in the dev_map_read function in btt/devmap.c because the device and devno arrays are too small, as demonstrated by an invalid free when using the btt program with a crafted file.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-blktrace

References

  • ELSA-2019-2162
  • CVE-2018-10689

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