CVE-2017-18550
kernel: information exposure in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · August 18, 2019
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
A flaw was found in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel, where there is potential exposure of kernel stack memory because the aac_get_hba_info function, does not initialize the hbainfo structure. An attacker with relevant permissions can issue ioctl to an aacraid device.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
There is no known mitigation to this flaw, preventing users being able to issue an ioctl to this device by removing the relevant permissions to do so will limit the information exposure.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor