Vigil@nce - Linux kernel: out-of-bounds memory reading via nvmet_fc_find_target_queue
January 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Android OS, Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on server.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 13/11/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address via
nvmet_fc_find_target_queue() of the Linux kernel, in order to
trigger a denial of service, or to obtain sensitive information.
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