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CVE-2017-18550

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-08-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

An issue was discovered in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13. There is potential exposure of kernel stack memory because aac_get_hba_info does not initialize the hbainfo structure.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: before 4.13 — fixed in 4.13

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.13. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=342ffc26693b528648bdc9377e51e4f2450b4860
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=342ffc26693b528648bdc9377e51e4f2450b4860

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