CVE-2019-14898 Information

Description

The fix for CVE-2019-11599 affecting the Linux kernel before 5.0.10 was not complete. A local user could use this flaw to obtain sensitive information cause a denial of service or possibly have other unspecified impacts by triggering a race condition with mmget_not_zero or get_task_mm calls.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1790 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14898 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.114 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.19.37 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.10 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200608-0001/

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.0