Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's SMB2_negotiate Function

Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's SMB2_negotiate Function

CVE-2019-15918 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.10. SMB2_negotiate in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c has an out-of-bounds read because data structures are incompletely updated after a change from smb30 to smb21.

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