K42398544: Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2018-15471

Security Advisory Description An issue was discovered in xenvifsethashmapping in drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c in the Linux kernel through 4.18.1, as used in Xen through 4.11.x and other products. The Linux netback driver allows frontends to control mapping of requests to request queues. When...

Integer overflow

An issue was discovered in xenvifsethashmapping in drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c in the Linux kernel through 4.18.1, as used in Xen through 4.11.x and other products. The Linux netback driver allows frontends to control mapping of requests to request queues. When processing a request to set or...

CVE-2018-15471

An issue was discovered in xenvifsethashmapping in drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c in the Linux kernel through 4.18.1, as used in Xen through 4.11.x and other products. The Linux netback driver allows frontends to control mapping of requests to request queues. When processing a request to set or...

CVE-2018-15471

CVE-2018-15471 affects the Linux kernel Xen netback driver: the xenvif_set_hash_mapping function in drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c handles request queue mapping with insufficient input validation (e.g., for integer overflow), causing out-of-bounds memory access. This can allow a malicious or bugg...

CVE-2018-15471

An issue was discovered in xenvifsethashmapping in drivers/net/xen-netback/hash.c in the Linux kernel through 4.18.1, as used in Xen through 4.11.x and other products. The Linux netback driver allows frontends to control mapping of requests to request queues. When processing a request to set or...