What is CVE-2017-18549?

CVE-2017-18549 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux Kernel, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-08-19.

How severe is CVE-2017-18549?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Linux Kernel

CVE-2017-18549

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_send_raw_srb does not initialize the reply structure.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.006 (43.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Linux Linux_kernel
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-18549?: CVE-2017-18549 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux Kernel, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-08-19.
How severe is CVE-2017-18549?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.