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Oracle Linux: CVE-2019-11811: ELSA-2019-1959: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2019-11811: ELSA-2019-1959: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/07/2019
Created
07/31/2019
Added
07/31/2019
Modified
01/07/2025

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.4. There is a use-after-free upon attempted read access to /proc/ioports after the ipmi_si module is removed, related to drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c, drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_mem_io.c, and drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_port_io.c. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of IPMI (remote baseband access). An attacker, with local access to read /proc/ioports, may be able to create a use-after-free condition when the kernel module is unloaded which may result in privilege escalation.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel

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