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CVE-2019-9893 (GCVE-0-2019-9893)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-21 02:30 – Updated: 2024-08-04 22:01
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Summary
libseccomp before 2.4.0 did not correctly generate 64-bit syscall argument comparisons using the arithmetic operators (LT, GT, LE, GE), which might able to lead to bypassing seccomp filters and potential privilege escalations.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp/issues/139 x_refsource_MISC
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q1/179 x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-18 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4001-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4001-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3624 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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