CVE-2019-15902

Published Sep 4, 2019

Last updated 5 years ago

Overview

Description
A backporting error was discovered in the Linux stable/longterm kernel 4.4.x through 4.4.190, 4.9.x through 4.9.190, 4.14.x through 4.14.141, 4.19.x through 4.19.69, and 5.2.x through 5.2.11. Misuse of the upstream "x86/ptrace: Fix possible spectre-v1 in ptrace_get_debugreg()" commit reintroduced the Spectre vulnerability that it aimed to eliminate. This occurred because the backport process depends on cherry picking specific commits, and because two (correctly ordered) code lines were swapped.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
5.6
Impact score
4
Exploitability score
1.1
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.7
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
3.4
Vector string
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-200

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations