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Red Hat: CVE-2017-18551: Important: kernel-alt security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2017-18551: Important: kernel-alt security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/19/2019
Created
05/14/2020
Added
05/13/2020
Modified
04/23/2021

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

References

  • CVE-2017-18551

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