Select your cookie preferences

We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your experience, provide our services, deliver relevant advertising, and make improvements. Approved third parties also use these tools to help us deliver advertising and provide certain site features.

CVE-2019-19332

Public on 2020-01-09
Modified on 2020-02-08
Description

An out-of-bounds memory write issue was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled the 'KVM_GET_EMULATED_CPUID' ioctl(2) request to get CPUID features emulated by the KVM hypervisor. A user or process able to access the '/dev/kvm' device could use this flaw to crash the system, resulting in a denial of service.

Severity
Medium
See what this means
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.1
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2020-02-04 22:39 ALAS-2020-1338
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2020-02-05 16:47 ALAS2-2020-1392

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 5.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H