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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 18, 2019· Updated Aug 5, 2024

CVE-2018-20669

CVE-2018-20669

Description

An issue where a provided address with access_ok() is not checked was discovered in i915_gem_execbuffer2_ioctl in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.13. A local attacker can craft a malicious IOCTL function call to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, resulting in a Denial of Service or privilege escalation.

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