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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-19824: Important: kernel security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-19824: Important: kernel security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/03/2018
Created
09/12/2019
Added
09/11/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

In the Linux kernel through 4.19.6, a local user could exploit a use-after-free in the ALSA driver by supplying a malicious USB Sound device (with zero interfaces) that is mishandled in usb_audio_probe in sound/usb/card.c.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-kernel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-rt

References

  • 106109
  • CVE-2018-19824
  • RHSA-2019:2703

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