CVSS 3.1
3.3 lowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NCVE-2018-20855
Low (3.3). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.18.7. In create_qp_common in drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c, mlx5_ib_create_qp_resp was never initialized, resulting in a leak of stack memory to userspace.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 40% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
- netapp:active_iq_performance_analytics_services
- netapp:active_iq_unified_manager
- netapp:data_availability_services
- netapp:element_software
- opensuse:leap
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00055.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00056.html
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.18.7
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0625b4ba1a5d4703c7fb01c497bd6c156908af00
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0625b4ba1a5d4703c7fb01c497bd6c156908af00