CVE-2019-18683

Summary

CVECVE-2019-18683
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-04 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:06:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in drivers/media/platform/vivid in the Linux kernel through 5.3.8. It is exploitable for privilege escalation on some Linux distributions where local users have /dev/video0 access, but only if the driver happens to be loaded. There are multiple race conditions during streaming stopping in this driver (part of the V4L2 subsystem). These issues are caused by wrong mutex locking in vivid_stop_generating_vid_cap(), vivid_stop_generating_vid_out(), sdr_cap_stop_streaming(), and the corresponding kthreads. At least one of these race conditions leads to a use-after-free.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362 | CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Broadcom Fabric Operating System - All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Hardware Netapp 8300 - All All All
Operating System Netapp 8300 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Netapp 8700 - All All All
Operating System Netapp 8700 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Netapp A400 - All All All
Operating System Netapp A400 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Netapp A700s - All All All
Operating System Netapp A700s Firmware - All All All
Application Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager - All All All
Application Netapp Cloud Backup - All All All
Application Netapp Data Availability Services - All All All
Application Netapp E-series Santricity Os Controller All All All All
Application Netapp Element Software - All All All
Hardware Netapp H610s - All All All
Operating System Netapp H610s Firmware - All All All
Application Netapp Hci Management Node - All All All
Application Netapp Solidfire - All All All
Application Netapp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage - All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: [ Linux kernel ] Exploitable bugs in drivers/media/platform/vivid MLIST www.openwall.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
November 2019 Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
Bugtraq: [slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel (SSA:2020-008-01) BUGTRAQ seclists.org
[PATCH v4 1/1] media: vivid: Fix wrong locking that causes race conditions on streaming stop - Alexander Popov MISC lore.kernel.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
USN-4284-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 2114-1] linux-4.9 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
USN-4287-2: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
USN-4258-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
USN-4254-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2675-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
USN-4254-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Slackware Security Advisory - Slackware 14.2 kernel Updates ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
USN-4287-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
oss-security - [ Linux kernel ] Exploitable bugs in drivers/media/platform/vivid MISC www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[PATCH v4 1/1] media: vivid: Fix wrong locking that causes race conditions on streaming stop - Alexander Popov lore.kernel.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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