A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 4.12 (Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function aac_send_raw_srb of the file drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

An issue was discovered in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13. There is potential exposure of kernel stack memory because aac_send_raw_srb does not initialize the reply structure.

The weakness was disclosed 08/19/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-18549 since 08/18/2019. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 4.13 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-140286, VDB-140285, VDB-140284 and VDB-140283 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Operating System

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• Linux

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• Kernel

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• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5
• 4.6
• 4.7
• 4.8
• 4.9
• 4.10
• 4.11
• 4.12

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• open-source

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