CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2019-8956
High (7.8). EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux Kernel before versions 4.20.8 and 4.19.21 a use-after-free error in the "sctp_sendmsg()" function (net/sctp/socket.c) when handling SCTP_SENDALL flag can be exploited to corrupt memory.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 66% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-416, CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.19.21
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.20.8
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ba59fb0273076637f0add4311faa990a5eec27c0
- https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2019-5/
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K12671141