Bug 1727756 (CVE-2019-13233) - CVE-2019-13233 kernel: use-after-free in arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c
Summary: CVE-2019-13233 kernel: use-after-free in arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-13233
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: 1727757 1728558 1728559 1728560 1728561 1828309 1828310 1838775 1838776
Blocks: 1727758
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-07-08 06:15 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2023-10-06 18:24 UTC (History)
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A vulnerability was found in the arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c function in the Linux kernel. An attacker could corrupt the memory due to a flaw in use-after-free access to an LDT entry caused by a race condition between modify_ldt() and a #BR exception for an MPX bounds violation.
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Last Closed: 2019-11-06 00:53:00 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:3309 0 None None None 2019-11-05 20:35:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:3517 0 None None None 2019-11-05 21:06:22 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1016 0 None None None 2020-03-31 19:11:43 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1070 0 None None None 2020-03-31 19:20:51 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:2522 0 None None None 2020-06-11 02:10:08 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:2851 0 None None None 2020-07-07 09:51:54 UTC

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-07-08 06:15:07 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c in the Linux kernel, there is a
use-after-free for access to an LDT entry because of a race condition between
modify_ldt() and a #BR exception for an MPX bounds violation.

Reference:
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.1.9
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1879

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/de9f869616dd95e95c00bdd6b0fcd3421e8a4323
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=de9f869616dd95e95c00bdd6b0fcd3421e8a4323
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-07-08 06:15:24 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1727757]
Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2019-07-08 12:40:32 UTC 
This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.1.9 stable updates.
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 20:35:38 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2019:3309 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3309
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 21:06:20 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2019:3517 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3517
Comment 10 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-11-06 00:53:00 UTC 
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-2019-13233
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-31 19:11:40 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:1016 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1016
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-31 19:20:47 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:1070 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1070
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2020-06-11 02:10:06 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2020:2522 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2522
Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2020-07-07 09:51:48 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2020:2851 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2851
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