CVE-2018-20669
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 18, 2019
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 3, 2019
Description
An issue where a provided address with access_ok() is not checked was discovered in i915_gem_execbuffer2_ioctl in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.13. A local attacker can craft a malicious IOCTL function call to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, resulting in a Denial of Service or privilege escalation.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- 106748vdb-entry
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
- [opensuse-security-announce] 20190218 [security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:0203-1: important: Security update for the Linux Kernelmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20190123 Linux Kernel: Missing access_ok() checks in IOCTL function (gpu/drm/i915 Driver)mailing-list
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-20669
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0002/
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K32059550
- USN-4485-1vendor-advisory
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