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Red Hat: CVE-2017-18595: Important: kernel security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2017-18595: Important: kernel security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/04/2019
Created
05/14/2020
Added
05/13/2020
Modified
03/03/2021

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.14.11. A double free may be caused by the function allocate_trace_buffer in the file kernel/trace/trace.c.

Solution(s)

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

References

  • CVE-2017-18595

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