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SCP7-994 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2019-11487

Created: May 8, 2019 Updated: Aug 14, 2019

Found In Version: 7.0.0.2

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7

Component/s: Kernel

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.

CREATE(Triage): {Link=https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11487 User=admin}