CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-8912
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-02-18
- 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-416
Description
In the Linux kernel through 4.20.11, af_alg_release() in crypto/af_alg.c neglects to set a NULL value for a certain structure member, which leads to a use-after-free in sockfs_setattr.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.103)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19 < 4.19.25)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 4.20.12)
• linux linux kernel 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
• opensuse leap 15.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00052.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1042902/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107063 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0174 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3930-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3930-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3931-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3931-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-8912 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00052.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1042902/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107063 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0174 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3930-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3930-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3931-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3931-2/ Third Party Advisory