Use After Free Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <4.12.14-197.37.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.45% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELSYMS-2713565
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed31 Mar 2020

Introduced: 31 Mar 2020

CVE-2019-19768  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 kernel-syms to version 4.12.14-197.37.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-syms package and not the kernel-syms package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel 5.4.0-rc2, there is a use-after-free (read) in the __blk_add_trace function in kernel/trace/blktrace.c (which is used to fill out a blk_io_trace structure and place it in a per-cpu sub-buffer).

CVSS Scores

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