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SUSE: CVE-2019-11190: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2019-11190: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/11/2019
Created
06/20/2019
Added
06/18/2019
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

The Linux kernel before 4.8 allows local users to bypass ASLR on setuid programs (such as /bin/su) because install_exec_creds() is called too late in load_elf_binary() in fs/binfmt_elf.c, and thus the ptrace_may_access() check has a race condition when reading /proc/pid/stat.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-cluster-network-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-default

References

  • SUSE-SU-2019:14089-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:1527-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:1532-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:1533-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:1534-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:1692-1
  • USN-4008-1
  • USN-4008-2
  • USN-4008-3
  • CVE-2019-11190
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