Buffer Overflow Affecting kernel-rt-debug-kvm package, versions <0:4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.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 IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELRTDEBUGKVM-4372148
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed17 Sept 2019

Introduced: 17 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-14835  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-rt-debug-kvm to version 0:4.18.0-80.11.2.rt9.157.el8_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2828.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug-kvm package and not the kernel-rt-debug-kvm 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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