CVE-2019-19770

Public on 2019-12-12
Modified on 2021-01-13
Description
A use-after-free flaw was found in the debugfs_remove function in the Linux kernel. The flaw could allow a local attacker with special user (or root) privilege to crash the system at the time of file or directory removal. This vulnerability can lead to a kernel information leak. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.1
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2021-01-12 ALAS-2021-1461 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2020-12-08 ALAS2-2020-1566 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2022-01-20 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-016 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P