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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2019-11815 json

An issue was discovered in rds_tcp_kill_sock in net/rds/tcp.c in the Linux kernel before 5.0.8.

published 2019-05-08 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-3481

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.4%
EPSS 4.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in rds_tcp_kill_sock in net/rds/tcp.c in the Linux kernel before 5.0.8. There is a race condition leading to a use-after-free, related to net namespace cleanup.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 4.4.179, 4.9.169, 4.14.112, 4.19.35, 5.0.8
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.19.37-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11815

  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-150.176
  • linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-55.60
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1084.94
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1047.49
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-1037.39~16.04.1
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1037.39
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-55.60~16.04.2
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-23.24~18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11815

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-source-rt Real Time Module 15 SP1 4.12.14-14.8.1
  • kernel-rt Real Time Module 15 SP1 4.12.14-14.8.1
  • kernel-syms-rt Real Time Module 15 SP1 4.12.14-14.8.1
  • kernel-rt_debug Real Time Module 15 SP1 4.12.14-14.8.1
  • kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP1 4.12.14-197.4.1
  • kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP1, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 4.12.14-197.4.1
  • kernel-default SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP1, SLE Module for Legacy 15 SP1, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 +2 more 4.12.14-197.4.1
  • kernel-zfcpdump SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 4.12.14-197.4.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:2430-1SUSE-SU-2019:1550-1SUSE-SU-2019:1536-1SUSE-SU-2019:1535-1SUSE-SU-2019:1534-1SUSE-SU-2019:1532-1

  • kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.4.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.4.1
  • kernel-source openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.4.1
  • kernel-default openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.4.1
  • kernel-vanilla openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.4.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.4.1
  • kernel-obs-build openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.4.1
  • kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 15.0 4.12.14-lp150.12.61.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2019:1479-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1404-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-11815 updated cvss 8.1

kernel: race condition in rds_tcp_kill_sock in net/rds/tcp.c leading to use-after-free

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-alt, python-perf, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cb66ddd156203daefb8d71158036b27b0e2caf63 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cb66ddd156203daefb8d71158036b27b0e2caf63 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
  • CWE-416 Use After Free
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References

Sources

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