CVE-2019-11487

The Linux kernel before 5.1-rc5 allows page->_refcount reference count overflow, with resultant use-after-free issues, if about 140 GiB of RAM exists

published April 23, 2019

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
52.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Linux kernel before 5.1-rc5 allows page->_refcount reference count overflow, with resultant use-after-free issues, if about 140 GiB of RAM exists. This is related to fs/fuse/dev.c, fs/pipe.c, fs/splice.c, include/linux/mm.h, include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h, kernel/trace/trace.c, mm/gup.c, and mm/hugetlb.c. It can occur with FUSE requests.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00708 · 52.9th percentile
Published
2019-04-23T22:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 APR 22:00Z
    The Linux kernel before 5.1-rc5 allows page->_refcount reference count overflow, with resultant use-after-free issues, if about 140 GiB of RAM exists
    cvelistv5