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CVE-2019-14898

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-05-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

The fix for CVE-2019-11599, affecting the Linux kernel before 5.0.10 was not complete. A local user could use this flaw to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service, or possibly have other unspecified impacts by triggering a race condition with mmget_not_zero or get_task_mm calls.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: 5.0.10
• RedHat Enterprise Mrg: 2.0

References

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1790
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14898
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.114
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.19.37
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.10
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200608-0001/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1790
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14898
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.114
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.19.37
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.10

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