PoC Index

CVE-2019-5023

MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 0.7%

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the grsecurity PaX patch for the function read_kmem, in PaX from version pax-linux-4.9.8-test1 to 4.9.24-test7, grsecurity official from version grsecurity-3.1-4.9.8-201702060653 to grsecurity-3.1-4.9.24-201704252333, grsecurity unofficial from version v4.9.25-unofficialgrsec to v4.9.74-unofficialgrsec. PaX adds a temp buffer to the read_kmem function, which is never freed when an invalid address is supplied. This results in a memory leakage that can lead to a crash of the system. An attacker needs to induce a read to /dev/kmem using an invalid address to exploit this vulnerability.

CVSS v3.1
5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3.0
5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
0.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 52th percentile
Published
2019-10-31
Updated
2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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