PT-2018-17543
CVE-2018-6412
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Published
2018-01-31
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Updated
2019-03-20
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.5
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel versions prior to 4.16
Description
The issue is related to an integer signedness error in the sbusfb ioctl helper() function, which can lead to arbitrary information leakage. This error affects the FBIOPUTCMAP SPARC and FBIOGETCMAP SPARC commands.
Recommendations
For Linux kernel versions prior to 4.16, update to version 4.16 or later to resolve the issue.
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