A vulnerability was found in X11 Mesa 3D Graphics Library 19.1.2 (Software Library). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Shared Memory Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission assignment vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-732. The product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An exploitable shared memory permissions vulnerability exists in the functionality of X11 Mesa 3D Graphics Library 19.1.2. An attacker can access the shared memory without any specific permissions to trigger this vulnerability.

The weakness was presented 11/05/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-5068 since 01/04/2019. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

See VDB-21627, VDB-166396, VDB-174361 and VDB-185425 for similar entries.

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