Bug 1757375 (CVE-2017-18550) - CVE-2017-18550 kernel: information exposure in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
Summary: CVE-2017-18550 kernel: information exposure in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-18550
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1757376
Blocks: 1757377
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-10-01 10:43 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2021-02-16 21:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-02-14 08:09:34 UTC
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-10-01 10:43:31 UTC 
An issue was discovered in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel. There is potential exposure of kernel stack memory because aac_get_hba_info does not initialize the hbainfo structure.

Reference:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=342ffc26693b528648bdc9377e51e4f2450b4860
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-10-01 10:44:03 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1757376]
Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2019-10-01 13:51:37 UTC 
This was fixed in upstream kernel 4.13 and has never impacted any still currently supported release of Fedora.
Comment 5 Wade Mealing 2020-02-14 04:48:32 UTC 
Mitigation:

There is no known mitigation to this flaw, preventing users being able to issue an ioctl to this device by removing the relevant permissions to do so will limit the information exposure.
Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-02-14 08:09:34 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-18550
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