CVE-2017-18550 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2017-18550?

CVE-2017-18550 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Aug 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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_get_hba_info does not initialize the hbainfo structure.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-18550?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2017-18550?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2017-18550 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-18550 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18550, GHSA-54wj-r2p9-8869, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18550.