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Use After Free Affecting kernel package, versions <0:3.10.0-693.71.2.el7

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNEL-5205077
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 22 Apr 2019
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Introduced: 22 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-11487 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 kernel to version 0:3.10.0-693.71.2.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:3230.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel package and not the kernel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The Linux kernel before 5.1-rc5 allows page->_refcount reference count overflow, with resultant use-after-free issues, if about 140 GiB of RAM exists. This is related to fs/fuse/dev.c, fs/pipe.c, fs/splice.c, include/linux/mm.h, include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h, kernel/trace/trace.c, mm/gup.c, and mm/hugetlb.c. It can occur with FUSE requests.

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CVSS Scores

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NVD

7.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High