Bug 1819392 (CVE-2019-9450) - CVE-2019-9450 kernel: memory corruption due to race condition in FingerTipS touchscreen driver leads to local privilege escalation
Summary: CVE-2019-9450 kernel: memory corruption due to race condition in FingerTipS t...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2019-9450
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1819395
Blocks: 1750356 1819394
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-03-31 19:27 UTC by msiddiqu
Modified: 2020-05-07 18:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-04-19 08:52:44 UTC
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Description msiddiqu 2020-03-31 19:27:30 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in the FingerTipS touchscreen driver in Kernel where there is a possible memory corruption due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.

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https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2019-09-01
Comment 1 msiddiqu 2020-03-31 19:28:37 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1819395]
Comment 3 Justin M. Forbes 2020-04-01 14:53:05 UTC 
This is an android driver which is not shipped in Fedora.
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