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Debian: CVE-2019-5068: mesa -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-5068: mesa -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
11/05/2019
Created
11/19/2019
Added
11/18/2019
Modified
02/10/2020

Description

An exploitable shared memory permissions vulnerability exists in the functionality of X11 Mesa 3D Graphics Library 19.1.2. An attacker can access the shared memory without any specific permissions to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-mesa

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