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GHSA-6FPP-3M7Q-Q8JC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 16:50 – Updated: 2024-04-04 01:15

Details

An information disclosure vulnerability leading to a potential local escalation of privilege in the procfs service (the /proc filesystem) of BlackBerry QNX Software Development Platform version(s) 6.5.0 SP1 and earlier could allow an attacker to potentially gain unauthorized access to a chosen process address space.

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2019-8998 (GCVE-0-2019-8998)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-07-12 15:30 – Updated: 2025-08-22 15:09

Summary

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

Information disclosure leading to a potential local escalation of privilege
CWE-413 - Improper Resource Locking

Assigner

blackberry

References

URL

Tags

http://support.blackberry.com/kb/articleDetail?ar…

x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	BlackBerry	QNX Software Development Platform (QNX SDP)	Affected: 6.5.0 SP1 and earlier

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