CVE-2018-19489 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2018-19489?

CVE-2018-19489 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 13 Dec 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

v9fs_wstat in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (crash) because of a race condition during file renaming.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-19489?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Leap, Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2018-19489?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2018-19489 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-19489 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19489, GHSA-fh27-82wq-79r2, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19489.