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CVE-2019-5068

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-11-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-277

Description

An exploitable shared memory permissions vulnerability exists in the functionality of X11 Mesa 3D Graphics Library 19.1.2. An attacker can access the shared memory without any specific permissions to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04, 19.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• mesa3d Mesa: 19.1.2
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00037.html
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/commit/02c3dad0f3b4d26e0faa5cc51d06bc50d693dcdc
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00013.html
• https://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/mesa-dev/2019-October/223704.html
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0857
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4271-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00037.html
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/commit/02c3dad0f3b4d26e0faa5cc51d06bc50d693dcdc
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00013.html
• https://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/mesa-dev/2019-October/223704.html
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0857
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4271-1/

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