Severity
Medium
Analysis Summary
| Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a pivot_root race condition in fs/namespace.c. By corrupting a mountpoint reference counter, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a system panic. |
Impact
| Denial of service |
Affected Vendors
Linux
Affected Products
| Linux Kernel 4.4.22 Linux Kernel 5.2 Linux Kernel 4.9.22 Linux Kernel 4.14.177 Linux Kernel 4.19.118 |
Remediation
| Refer to Linux Kernel GIT Repository for upgraded patch.https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v4.19.119&id=f511dc75d22e0c000fc70b54f670c2c17f5fba9a |