CVE-2019-19768

Public on 2019-12-12
Modified on 2020-06-03
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of blktrace in the __blk_add_trace function. A local attacker with permissions to run block trace instructions against a device can create a situation where the core block_trace object is used after it is freed. The attacker can pre-groom memory to race this use-after-free to create a condition where the memory is corrupted and cause privilege escalation.

The ability to create this condition requires elevated privileges, and it has been decided that this change in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 would risk introducing possible regressions and will not be backported.
Severity
Important severity
Important
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.7
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2020-06-01 ALAS-2020-1377 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2020-06-01 ALAS2-2020-1431 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H