CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20669
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-03-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
An issue where a provided address with access_ok() is not checked was discovered in i915_gem_execbuffer2_ioctl in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.13. A local attacker can craft a malicious IOCTL function call to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, resulting in a Denial of Service or privilege escalation.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.13 < 4.14.185)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.129)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.0)
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• netapp hci management node
• netapp snapprotect
• netapp solidfire
• netapp cn1610 firmware
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-02/msg00042.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/01/23/6 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106748 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-20669 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0002/ Third Party Advisory
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K32059550 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4485-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-02/msg00042.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/01/23/6 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106748 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-20669 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0002/ Third Party Advisory
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K32059550 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4485-1/ Third Party Advisory