High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 26, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-20854

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.20. drivers/phy/mscc/phy-ocelot-serdes.c has an off-by-one error with a resultant ctrl->phys out-of-bounds read.

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Affected products

Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy2 versions
<4.20+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <4.20
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <4.20
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References

git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/nvdMailing ListPatchVendor Advisory
github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6acb47d1a318e5b3b7115354ebc4ea060c59d3a1nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/nvd
support.f5.com/csp/article/K32450233nvd
support.f5.com/csp/article/K32450233nvd

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