CVE-2019-8912

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 17
Modified
Published: 18 Feb 2019, 18:00
Last modified:04 Aug 2024, 21:31

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.4% LOW
0% probability +0.06%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

18 Feb 2019, 18:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Aug 2024, 21:31
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

In the Linux kernel through 4.20.11, af_alg_release() in crypto/af_alg.c neglects to set a NULL value for a certain structure member, which leads to a use-after-free in sockfs_setattr.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.40%• Percentile: 61%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-416•Use After Free

    The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    14.04 | 16.04 | 18.04 | 18.10

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≥ 4.10, < 4.14.103 | ≥ 4.19, < 4.19.25 | ≥ 4.20, < 4.20.12 | 5.0:rc1 | 5.0:rc2 | 5.0:rc3 | 5.0:rc4 | 5.0:rc5 | 5.0:rc6 | 5.0:rc7 | 5.0:rc8

  • opensuse•leap

    15.0

  • redhat•enterprise_linux

    7.0

References (9)