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Tracker / CVE-2019-9213

CVE-2019-9213

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel before 4.20.14, expand_downwards in mm/mmap.c lacks a check for the mmap minimum address, which makes it easier for attackers to exploit kernel NULL pointer dereferences on non-SMAP platforms. This is related to a capability check for the wrong task.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · 4.14 → 4.14.105
linux linux_kernel · 4.19 → 4.19.27
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 4.20.14
linux linux_kernel · 4.9 → 4.9.162
opensuse leap
redhat enterprise_linux

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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