CVE-2019-3837 MEDIUM

CVE-2019-3837

Vendor The Linux Foundation
Product kernel
Weakness CWE-362
Published April 11, 2019
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

6.1/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

It was found that the net_dma code in tcp_recvmsg() in the 2.6.32 kernel as shipped in RHEL6 is thread-unsafe. So an unprivileged multi-threaded userspace application calling recvmsg() for the same network socket in parallel executed on ioatdma-enabled hardware with net_dma enabled can leak the memory, crash the host leading to a denial-of-service or cause a random memory corruption.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 11, 2019 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated