Security Advisory

CVE-2018-20669

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-03-18 16:33:59
Last updated 2024-08-05 12:05:17
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

An issue where a provided address with access_ok() is not checked was discovered in i915_gem_execbuffer2_ioctl in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.13. A local attacker can craft a malicious IOCTL function call to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, resulting in a Denial of Service or privilege escalation.