CVE-2018-20856

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-20856
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-07-26 05:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:56:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
myF5 support.f5.com
cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.18.7 MISC cdn.kernel.org Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4497-1 linux DEBIAN www.debian.org
block: blk_init_allocated_queue() set q->fq as NULL in the fail case · torvalds/linux@54648cf · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Slackware Security Advisory - Slackware 14.2 kernel Updates ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
USN-4116-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
USN-4118-1: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Bugtraq: [slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel (SSA:2019-226-01) BUGTRAQ seclists.org
USN-4094-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
support.f5.com/csp/article/K14673240 CONFIRM support.f5.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Bugtraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 4497-1] linux security update BUGTRAQ seclists.org
Kernel Live Patch Security Notice LSN-0055-1 ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 1885-1] linux-4.9 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Kernel Live Patch Security Notice LSN-0058-1 ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
August 2019 Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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