CVE-2019-19770

medium
Published 2020-11-03 ยท Modified 2020-11-04
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel 4.19.83, there is a use-after-free (read) in the debugfs_remove function in fs/debugfs/inode.c (which is used to remove a file or directory in debugfs that was previously created with a call to another debugfs function such as debugfs_create_file). NOTE: Linux kernel developers dispute this issue as not being an issue with debugfs, instead this is an issue with misuse of debugfs within blktrace

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
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almalinux AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-240.el8.x86_64.rpm
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 5.7.17-1
sid Fixed 5.7.17-1
forky Fixed 5.7.17-1
bullseye Fixed 5.7.17-1
bookworm Fixed 5.7.17-1
redhat Red Hat Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed โ€”

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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