FKIE_CVE-2018-20855

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-07-26 05:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:53
Severity
3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
opensuse leap 15.0
opensuse leap 15.1
netapp active_iq_performance_analytics_services -
netapp active_iq_unified_manager *
netapp data_availability_services -
netapp element_software -
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