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Red Hat: CVE-2018-10689: Low: blktrace security update (RHSA-2019:2162)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-10689: Low: blktrace security update (RHSA-2019:2162)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/03/2018
Created
08/08/2019
Added
08/07/2019
Modified
08/08/2019

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-blktrace
  • redhat-upgrade-blktrace-debuginfo

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