VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2019-11487
CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.71%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-04-23
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
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.
Weakness classification
- CWE-416: Use After Free
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Patch, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Patch, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Patch, Vendor Advisory