CVE-2018-19333

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-19333
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-11-17 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
Descriptionpkg/sentry/kernel/shm/shm.go in Google gVisor before 2018-11-01 allows attackers to overwrite memory locations in processes running as root (but not escape the sandbox) via vectors involving IPC_RMID shmctl calls, because reference counting is mishandled.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Google Gvisor All All All All
Application Google Gvisor All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Privilege Escalation in gVisor, Google's Container Sandbox MISC justi.cz Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Prevent premature destruction of shm segments. · google/gvisor@0e277a3 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
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