Bug 1760550 (CVE-2019-15918)

Summary: CVE-2019-15918 kernel: out-of-bounds read in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-10-10 19:32:39 UTC
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.10. SMB2_negotiate in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c has an out-of-bounds read because data structures are incompletely updated after a change from smb30 to smb21.

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b57a55e2200ede754e4dc9cce4ba9402544b9365

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-10-10 19:32:57 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1760551]

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2019-10-10 19:51:41 UTC
This was fixed for Fedora in the 5.0.10 stable kernel update.

Comment 3 Wade Mealing 2019-12-10 02:31:25 UTC
Statement:

At this time this flaw does not affect shipping releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernels.