CVE-2019-19079

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4258-1

Posted Jan 29, 2020

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 4258-1 - It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac wireless USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate device metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Virtual Video Test Driver in the Linux kernel. An attacker with write access to /dev/video0 on a system with the vivid module loaded could possibly use this to gain administrative privileges. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2019-15099, CVE-2019-15291, CVE-2019-18683, CVE-2019-18885, CVE-2019-19050, CVE-2019-19071, CVE-2019-19077, CVE-2019-19078, CVE-2019-19079, CVE-2019-19082, CVE-2019-19227, CVE-2019-19252, CVE-2019-19332, CVE-2019-19767

SHA-256 | 8e7ff66b846fc415e65fe269e0f56cb6c4613b8ab8d143f9d668101d578ef033

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