Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-20856

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.18.7. In block/blk-core.c, there is an blkdrainqueue use-after-free because a certain error case is...

kernel: Use-after-free in __blk_drain_queue() function in block/blk-core.c

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s block driver implementation blkdrainqueue function where a use-after-free condition could be triggered while draining the outstanding command queue in the systems block device subsystem. An attacker could use this flaw to crash the system or corrupt local...