Use After Free Affecting kernel-default-man package, versions <4.12.14-197.4.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELDEFAULTMAN-3257449
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed18 Jun 2019

Introduced: 18 Jun 2019

CVE-2019-11487  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 kernel-default-man to version 4.12.14-197.4.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-man package and not the kernel-default-man package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 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.

References

CVSS Scores

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