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CVE-2019-11190
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2019-04-12T00:29:00.217 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:12:30.370

Summary

The Linux kernel before 4.8 allows local users to bypass ASLR on setuid programs (such as /bin/su) because install_exec_creds() is called too late in load_elf_binary() in fs/binfmt_elf.c, and thus the ptrace_may_access() check has a race condition when reading /proc/pid/stat.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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