CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20855
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-07-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 4.18.7)
• opensuse leap 15.0
• opensuse leap 15.1
• netapp active iq performance analytics services
• netapp active iq unified manager (>= 9.5)
• netapp data availability services
• netapp element software
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00055.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00056.html Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.18.7 Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0625b4ba1a5d4703c7fb01c497bd6c156908af00 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0625b4ba1a5d4703c7fb01c497bd6c156908af00 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/ Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00055.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00056.html Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.18.7 Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0625b4ba1a5d4703c7fb01c497bd6c156908af00 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0625b4ba1a5d4703c7fb01c497bd6c156908af00 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/ Third Party Advisory