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SUSE: CVE-2018-20856: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-20856: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/26/2019
Created
09/04/2019
Added
09/03/2019
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.18.7. In block/blk-core.c, there is an __blk_drain_queue() use-after-free because a certain error case is mishandled.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-cluster-network-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-default

References

  • SUSE-SU-2019:2263-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2299-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:3228-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:3232-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:3252-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:3258-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:3260-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:3261-1
  • USN-4094-1
  • USN-4116-1
  • USN-4118-1
  • CVE-2018-20856
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