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Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-20856: ELSA-2019-3055: kernel security and bug fix update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-20856: ELSA-2019-3055: kernel security and bug fix update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/26/2019
Created
10/22/2019
Added
10/18/2019
Modified
08/06/2024

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)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel

References

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