CVSS 3.1
5.6 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2019-15902
A backporting error was discovered in the Linux stable/longterm kernel 4.4.x through 4.4.190, 4.9.x through 4.9.190, 4.14.x through 4.14.141, 4.19.x through 4.19.69, and 5.2.x through 5.2.11. Misuse of the upstream "x86/ptrace: Fix possible spectre-v1 in ptrace_get_debugreg()" commit reintroduced the Spectre vulnerability that it aimed to eliminate. This occurred because the backport process depends on cherry picking specific commits, and because two (correctly ordered) code lines were swapped.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 49% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
- netapp:active_iq_performance_analytics_services
- netapp:baseboard_management_controller_firmware
- netapp:service_processor
- opensuse:leap
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html
- https://grsecurity.net/teardown_of_a_failed_linux_lts_spectre_fix.php
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00000.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/41