2.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2019-1125

Published: 03/09/2019 Updated: 24/08/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 187
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

It exists that the alarmtimer implementation in the Linux kernel contained an integer overflow vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-13053)

Vulnerability Trend

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redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0

redhat enterprise linux server 7.0

redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0

redhat virtualization host 4.0

redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.7

redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.7

redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.7

Vendor Advisories

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks CVE-2015-8553 Jan Beulich discovered that CVE-2015-2150 was not completely addressed If a PCI physical function is passed through to a Xen guest, the guest is able to access its memory and I ...
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks CVE-2018-20836 chenxiang reported a race condition in libsas, the kernel subsystem supporting Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) devices, which could lead to a use-after-free It is not clear how thi ...
There is a newly discovered variant side-channel attack of Spectre V1 which leverages SWAPGS instructions to bypass KPTI/KVA mitigations This could lead to a kernel information disclosure ...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
The system could be made to expose sensitive information ...
Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 73 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 73 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 73 Update Services ...
Synopsis Important: kernel security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 66 Advanced Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring S ...
Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 75 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerabili ...
Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 72 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 72 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 72 Update Services ...
Synopsis Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (C ...
Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 76 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerabili ...
Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 74 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerabili ...
Synopsis Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 65 Advanced Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability ...
Synopsis Important: kernel security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, w ...
Synopsis Moderate: Red Hat Virtualization security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a ...
Synopsis Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVS ...
Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) b ...
Synopsis Important: kernel-rt security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base sc ...
Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) b ...
There is a newly discovered variant side-channel attack of Spectre V1 which leverages SWAPGS instructions to bypass KPTI/KVA mitigations This could lead to a kernel information disclosure (CVE-2019-1125) ...
Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2019-08-06 CWE: CWE-385->CWE-200 Bugzilla: 1724389: CVE-2019-1125 kern ...
An information disclosure vulnerability exists when certain x86-64-bit central processing units (CPU) speculatively access memory, this vulnerability uses the SWAPGS instruction in the CPU To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a specially crafted application  An attacker who successfull ...

Github Repositories

This repository contains the sources and documentation for the SWAPGS attack PoC (CVE-2019-1125)

PoC for the SWAPGS attack (CVE-2019-1125) This repository holds the sources for the SWAPGS attack PoC publicly shown at Black Hat USA, 2019 Contents leakgsbkva - variant 1 (look for random values in kernel memory; limited to PE kernel image header) leakgsbkvat - variant 2 (extract random values from kernel memory; limited to PE kernel image header) whitepaper Black Hat USA 20

Recent Articles

Deja-wooo-oooh! Intel chips running Windows potentially vulnerable to scary Spectre variant
The Register • Thomas Claburn in San Francisco • 06 Aug 2019

SWAPGS can be abused to siphon sensitive secrets from kernel memory, patches already available Data-spewing Spectre chip flaws can't be killed by software alone, Google boffins conclude

Spectre – a family of data-leaking side-channel vulnerabilities arising from speculative execution that was disclosed last year and affects various vendors' chips – has a new sibling that bypasses previous mitigations. Designated CVE-2019-1125 and rated moderate in terms of severity, the issue – limited primarily to Intel x86-64 systems running Windows – could allow a local attacker to work around protections like kernel address space isolation to read sensitive kernel memory. AMD's 64-b...

Deja-wooo-oooh! Intel chips running Windows potentially vulnerable to scary Spectre variant
The Register • Thomas Claburn in San Francisco • 06 Aug 2019

SWAPGS can be abused to siphon sensitive secrets from kernel memory, patches already available Data-spewing Spectre chip flaws can't be killed by software alone, Google boffins conclude

Spectre – a family of data-leaking side-channel vulnerabilities arising from speculative execution that was disclosed last year and affects various vendors' chips – has a new sibling that bypasses previous mitigations. Designated CVE-2019-1125 and rated moderate in terms of severity, the issue – limited primarily to Intel x86-64 systems running Windows – could allow a local attacker to work around protections like kernel address space isolation to read sensitive kernel memory. AMD's 64-b...