UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16921
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Summary:
Details: In the Linux kernel before 4.17, hns_roce_alloc_ucontext in drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_main.c does not initialize the resp data structure, which might allow attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory, aka CID-df7e40425813.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-16921, https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=df7e40425813c50cd252e6f5e348a81ef1acae56, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/df7e40425813c50cd252e6f5e348a81ef1acae56, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-16921
Affected packages
Package
Name: linux
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
3.11.0-12.19
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
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User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
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Confidentiality
None
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Integrity
None
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Availability
None
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