Bug 1157905 – VUL-1: CVE-2019-14898: kernel-source: kernel: incomplete fix for race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping

Bug 1157905 - (CVE-2019-14898) VUL-1: CVE-2019-14898: kernel-source: kernel: incomplete fix for race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping

(CVE-2019-14898)
Summary:	VUL-1: CVE-2019-14898: kernel-source: kernel: incomplete fix for race condit...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Classification:	Novell Products
Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P4 - Low Severity: Normal
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URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/247697/
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Reported:	2019-11-27 14:51 UTC by Wolfgang Frisch
Modified:	2019-11-28 12:01 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

See Also:	CVE-2019-11599
Found By:	Security Response Team
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Comment 1 Wolfgang Frisch 2019-11-27 14:53:02 UTC

CVE-2019-14898

Incomplete fix for CVE-2019-11599, race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping, in RHEL-7.

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1774671
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2019-14898
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-14898.html
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/patch/?id=04f5866e41fb70690e28397487d8bd8eea7d712a

Comment 3 Michal Hocko 2019-11-27 14:58:56 UTC

Which part of the fix is missing? The referenced commit is the original fix which we should have.