CVE-2018-20855
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-07-26 04:39
Modified
2024-08-05 12:12
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00055.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00056.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.18.7Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0625b4ba1a5d4703c7fb01c497bd6c156908af00Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0625b4ba1a5d4703c7fb01c497bd6c156908af00Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00055.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00056.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.18.7Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0625b4ba1a5d4703c7fb01c497bd6c156908af00Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0625b4ba1a5d4703c7fb01c497bd6c156908af00Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/Third Party Advisory
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