CVE-2019-19252

high

Description

vcs_write in drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.13 does not prevent write access to vcsu devices, aka CID-0c9acb1af77a.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4284-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4258-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200103-0001/

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/c30fc539-68a8-65d7-226c-6f8e6fd8bdfb%40suse.com/

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git/commit/?h=tty-testing&id=0c9acb1af77a3cb8707e43f45b72c95266903cee

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-11-25

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High