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SUSE: CVE-2018-20976: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-20976: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/19/2019
Created
09/24/2019
Added
09/21/2019
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in fs/xfs/xfs_super.c in the Linux kernel before 4.18. A use after free exists, related to xfs_fs_fill_super failure.

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-2019:14218-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2412-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2414-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2424-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2648-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2651-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2658-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2738-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2756-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2949-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2950-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:2984-1
  • USN-4144-1
  • USN-4145-1
  • CVE-2018-20976
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