{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2019-09-04T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: use-after-free information leak in SMB2_read",
    "id" : "1760864",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1760864"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "3.3",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-416",
  "details" : [ "An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.10. SMB2_read in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c has a use-after-free. NOTE: this was not fixed correctly in 5.0.10; see the 5.0.11 ChangeLog, which documents a memory leak.", "An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel's implementation of the CIFS protocol. The SMB2_read function has a possible use-after-free when CIFS function tracing is enabled. While data is used after being freed, it is has not been determined how it could be used for privilege escalation." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2019-11-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:3517",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-147.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-alt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15920\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15920" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2019-15920",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "As the CIFS module will be auto-loaded when required, its use can be disabled \nby preventing the module from loading with the following instructions:\n# echo \"install cifs /bin/true\" >> /etc/modprobe.d/disable-cifs.conf \nThe system will need to be restarted if the CIFS modules are loaded. In most circumstances, the CIFS kernel modules will be unable to be unloaded while any network interfaces are active and the protocol is in use.\nIf you need further assistance, see KCS article https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 or contact Red Hat Global Support Services.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}