Security Advisory

CVE-2019-20172

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-12-31 02:50:35
Last updated 2024-08-05 02:39:09
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Kernel/VM/MemoryManager.cpp in SerenityOS before 2019-12-30 does not reject syscalls with pointers into the kernel-only virtual address space, which allows local users to gain privileges by overwriting a return address that was found on the kernel stack.