CVE-2019-14193
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
An issue was discovered in Das U-Boot through 2019.07. There is an unbounded memcpy with an unvalidated length at nfs_readlink_reply, in the "if" block after calculating the new path length.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2020.01+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 2020.01+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 2020.01+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2020.01+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2020.01+dfsg-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| denx | u-boot | {"endIncluding":"2019.07"} | |
References
- https://blog.semmle.com/uboot-rce-nfs-vulnerability/
- https://gitlab.com/u-boot/u-boot
- https://web.archive.org/web/20191130052117/https://blog.semmle.com/uboot-rce-nfs-vulnerability/
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-577017.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14193.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-14193
CWEs
CWE-787
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.