CVE-2019-7308Sensitive Information Exposure in Kernel

Severity
5.6MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8
EPSS
0.0%
top 90.71%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedFeb 1
Latest updateMay 13

Description

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.20.6 performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic in various cases, including cases of different branches with different state or limits to sanitize, leading to side-channel attacks.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 1.1 | Impact: 4.0

Affected Packages5 packages

NVDlinux/linux_kernel4.20.04.20.6+1
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 4.19.20-1+3
Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 4.15.0-47.50
debiandebian/linux< linux 4.19.20-1 (bookworm)
NVDopensuse/leap15.0

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
GHSA
GHSA-vww8-62hf-x3fx: kernel/bpf/verifier2022-05-13
OSV
linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities2019-04-02
OSV
linux-hwe, linux-azure vulnerabilities2019-04-02
OSV
linux-hwe, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-oracle vulnerabilities2019-04-02
OSV
CVE-2019-7308: kernel/bpf/verifier2019-02-01

📋Vendor Advisories

6
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities2019-04-02
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities2019-04-02
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities2019-04-02
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities2019-04-02
Red Hat
kernel: eBPF: Spectre v1 mitigation bypass2019-01-03

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-7308 kernel: eBPF: Spectre v1 mitigation bypass2019-02-04
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-7308 kernel: eBPF: Spectre v1 mitigation bypass [fedora-all]2019-02-04