Vulnerability CVE-2019-11487
Published: 2019-04-23   Modified: 2019-04-24

Description:
The Linux kernel before 5.1-rc5 allows page->_refcount reference count overflow, with resultant use-after-free issues, if about 140 GiB of RAM exists. This is related to fs/fuse/dev.c, fs/pipe.c, fs/splice.c, include/linux/mm.h, include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h, kernel/trace/trace.c, mm/gup.c, and mm/hugetlb.c. It can occur with FUSE requests.

Type:

CWE-416

 (Use After Free)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/04/29/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108054
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1752
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=15fab63e1e57be9fdb5eec1bbc5916e9825e9acb
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6b3a707736301c2128ca85ce85fb13f60b5e350a
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=88b1a17dfc3ed7728316478fae0f5ad508f50397
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8fde12ca79aff9b5ba951fce1a2641901b8d8e64
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f958d7b528b1b40c44cfda5eabe2d82760d868c3
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/15fab63e1e57be9fdb5eec1bbc5916e9825e9acb
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6b3a707736301c2128ca85ce85fb13f60b5e350a
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/88b1a17dfc3ed7728316478fae0f5ad508f50397
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8fde12ca79aff9b5ba951fce1a2641901b8d8e64
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f958d7b528b1b40c44cfda5eabe2d82760d868c3
https://lwn.net/Articles/786044/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190517-0005/
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