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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2019-19602 json

fpregs_state_valid in arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h in the Linux kernel before 5.4.2, when GCC 9 is used, allows context-dependent at…

published 2019-12-05 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-9217

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 49%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

fpregs_state_valid in arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h in the Linux kernel before 5.4.2, when GCC 9 is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of incorrect fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx caching, as demonstrated by mishandling of signal-based non-cooperative preemption in Go 1.14 prereleases on amd64, aka CID-59c4bd853abc.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 5.4.2
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.3.15-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19602

  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-40.32~18.04.1
  • linux-gcp-5.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-1012.13~18.04.1
  • linux-gke-5.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-1012.13~18.04.1
  • linux-azure-5.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-1013.14~18.04.1
  • linux-raspi2-5.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-1018.20~18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19602

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 RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8
  • perf RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8
  • bpftool RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8
  • kernel-core RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8
  • kernel-tools RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8
  • python3-perf RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8
  • kernel-modules RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8
  • kernel-zfcpdump RHEL 8 4.18.0-240.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:4431

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-2019-19602 updated cvss 6.1

kernel: cached use of fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx in arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h can lead to DoS

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, kernel-alt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-tools, +3 more
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-kvm, kernel-rt-core, kernel-rt-modules, kernel-rt-debug-kvm, kernel-rt-debug-core, +6 more
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 4.18.0-240.el8, kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 4.18.0-240.el8, kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le 4.18.0-240.el8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) perf 4.18.0-240.el8, kernel 4.18.0-240.el8, bpftool 4.18.0-240.el8, kernel-core 4.18.0-240.el8, kernel-tools 4.18.0-240.el8, python3-perf 4.18.0-240.el8, +15 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4431
  • 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 kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-rt-kvm, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-debug-kvm, +1 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

0.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=59c4bd853abcea95eccc167a7d7fd5f1a5f47b98 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/59c4bd853abcea95eccc167a7d7fd5f1a5f47b98 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
NVD 2.0 5.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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