CVE-2019-11884 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2019-11884?

CVE-2019-11884 is a low-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 10 May 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The do_hidp_sock_ioctl function in net/bluetooth/hidp/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 5.0.15 allows a local user to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a HIDPCONNADD command, because a name field may not end with a '\0' character.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-11884?

It affects 12 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Linux kernel, Opensuse Leap, Redhat Enterprise Linux and 6 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-11884?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2019-11884 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-11884 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
• How this page is made

Also known as CVE-2019-12983, DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11884, GHSA-9hjc-prgx-x7pv, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11884.