Use-after-free vulnerability in Linux kernel before 4.18.7

CVE-2018-20856 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.18.7. In block/blk-core.c, there is an __blk_drain_queue() use-after-free because a certain error case is mishandled.

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