Use After Free Affecting iproute package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-IPROUTE-1393367
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed5 May 2019

Introduced: 5 May 2019

CVE-2019-20795  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 iproute.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream iproute package and not the iproute package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

iproute2 before 5.1.0 has a use-after-free in get_netnsid_from_name in ip/ipnetns.c. NOTE: security relevance may be limited to certain uses of setuid that, although not a default, are sometimes a configuration option offered to end users. Even when setuid is used, other factors (such as C library configuration) may block exploitability.

CVSS Scores

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