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Buffer Overflow Affecting kernel-cross-headers package, versions <0:4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.1% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-3471263
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 17 Sep 2019
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Introduced: 17 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-14835 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-120 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-cross-headers to version 0:4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2827.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A buffer overflow flaw was found, in versions from 2.6.34 to 5.2.x, in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host.

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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