CVE-2019-14821 — Out-of-bounds Write in Kernel
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 71.20%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 19
Latest updateMay 24
Description
An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the Linux kernel, all versions through 5.3, in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvm_coalesced_mmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring->first' and 'ring->last' value could be supplied by a host user-space process. An unprivileged host user or process with access to '/dev/kvm' device could use this flaw to crash the host kernel, resulting in a denial of servic…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.0 | Impact: 6.0
Affected Packages9 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, Enterprise Linux 8.0, 7.7, 7, 8, Fedora 29, 30
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
5GHSA▶
GHSA-5xg6-r8mx-769h: An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the Linux kernel, all versions through 5↗2022-05-24
OSV▶
CVE-2019-14821: An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the Linux kernel, all versions through 5↗2019-09-19
CVEList▶
CVE-2019-14821: An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the Linux kernel, all versions through 5↗2019-09-19
📋Vendor Advisories
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