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SUSE: CVE-2018-20855: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-20855: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/26/2019
Created
08/10/2019
Added
08/08/2019
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.18.7. In create_qp_common in drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c, mlx5_ib_create_qp_resp was never initialized, resulting in a leak of stack memory to userspace.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-azure-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-man
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-devel-azure
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-source-azure

References

  • SUSE-SU-2019:14157-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2068-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2069-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2070-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2071-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2072-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2073-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2262-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2263-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2299-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2430-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2450-1
  • CVE-2018-20855
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