Use After Free Affecting linux-4.19 package, versions <4.19.160-2~deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-LINUX419-1048654
  • published13 Dec 2019
  • disclosed12 Dec 2019

Introduced: 12 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-19770  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 linux-4.19 to version 4.19.160-2~deb9u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-4.19 package and not the linux-4.19 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel 4.19.83, there is a use-after-free (read) in the debugfs_remove function in fs/debugfs/inode.c (which is used to remove a file or directory in debugfs that was previously created with a call to another debugfs function such as debugfs_create_file). NOTE: Linux kernel developers dispute this issue as not being an issue with debugfs, instead this is an issue with misuse of debugfs within blktrace

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1