Bug 1669187 (CVE-2019-3819)
| Summary: | CVE-2019-3819 kernel: infinite loop in drivers/hid/hid-debug.c:hid_debug_events_read() | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Vladis Dronov <vdronov> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | airlied, bskeggs, hdegoede, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jeremy, jfeeney, jforbes, jglisse, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, jwboyer, kernel-maint, labbott, linville, mchehab, mjg59, pmatouse, rvr, security-response-team, steved, tcamuso, torez |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
| Doc Text: |
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the function hid_debug_events_read() in the drivers/hid/hid-debug.c file which may enter an infinite loop with certain parameters passed from a user space. A local privileged user ("root") can cause a system lock up and a denial of service.
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| Last Closed: | 2019-07-12 13:06:38 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1669449, 1669469, 1669470 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1631041 | ||
Acknowledgments: Name: Vladis Dronov (Red Hat) Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1669449] Introducing commit: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/717adfdaf14704fd3ec7fa2c04520c0723247eac This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-3819 |
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the function hid_debug_events_read() in drivers/hid/hid-debug.c file which may enter an infinite loop with certain parameters passed from a userspace. A local privileged user ("root") can cause a system lock up and a denial of service. References: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190129105835.4723-1-vdronov@redhat.com/T/#u https://marc.info/?t=154875959000006&r=1&w=2 An upstream patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=13054abbaa4f1fd4e6f3b4b63439ec033b4c8035