Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

  - CVE-2019-2182     Hanjun Guo and Lei Li reported a race condition in the     arm64 virtual memory management code, which could lead     to an information disclosure, denial of service (crash),     or possibly privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2019-5108     Mitchell Frank of Cisco discovered that when the IEEE     802.11 (WiFi) stack was used in AP mode with roaming, it     would trigger roaming for a newly associated station     before the station was authenticated. An attacker within     range of the AP could use this to cause a denial of     service, either by filling up a switching table or by     redirecting traffic away from other stations.

  - CVE-2019-19319     Jungyeon discovered that a crafted filesystem can cause     the ext4 implementation to deallocate or reallocate     journal blocks. A user permitted to mount filesystems     could use this to cause a denial of service (crash), or     possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2019-19462     The syzbot tool found a missing error check in the     'relay' library used to implement various files under     debugfs. A local user permitted to access debugfs could     use this to cause a denial of service (crash) or     possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2019-19768     Tristan Madani reported a race condition in the blktrace     debug facility that could result in a use-after-free. A     local user able to trigger removal of block devices     could possibly use this to cause a denial of service     (crash) or for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2019-20806     A potential NULL pointer dereference was discovered in     the tw5864 media driver. The security impact of this is     unclear.

  - CVE-2019-20811     The Hulk Robot tool found a reference-counting bug in an     error path in the network subsystem. The security impact     of this is unclear.

  - CVE-2020-0543     Researchers at VU Amsterdam discovered that on some     Intel CPUs supporting the RDRAND and RDSEED     instructions, part of a random value generated by these     instructions may be used in a later speculative     execution on any core of the same physical CPU.
    Depending on how these instructions are used by     applications, a local user or VM guest could use this to     obtain sensitive information such as cryptographic keys     from other users or VMs.

  This vulnerability can be mitigated by a microcode update, either as   part of system firmware (BIOS) or through the intel-microcode   package in Debian's non-free archive section. This kernel update   only provides reporting of the vulnerability and the option to   disable the mitigation if it is not needed.

  - CVE-2020-2732     Paulo Bonzini discovered that the KVM implementation for     Intel processors did not properly handle instruction     emulation for L2 guests when nested virtualization is     enabled. This could allow an L2 guest to cause privilege     escalation, denial of service, or information leaks in     the L1 guest.

  - CVE-2020-8428     Al Viro discovered a potential use-after-free in the     filesystem core (vfs). A local user could exploit this     to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly to     obtain sensitive information from the kernel.

  - CVE-2020-8647, CVE-2020-8649     The Hulk Robot tool found a potential MMIO out-of-bounds     access in the vgacon driver. A local user permitted to     access a virtual terminal (/dev/tty1 etc.) on a system     using the vgacon driver could use this to cause a denial     of service (crash or memory corruption) or possibly for     privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2020-8648     The syzbot tool found a race condition in the the     virtual terminal driver, which could result in a     use-after-free. A local user permitted to access a     virtual terminal could use this to cause a denial of     service (crash or memory corruption) or possibly for     privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2020-9383     Jordy Zomer reported an incorrect range check in the     floppy driver which could lead to a static out-of-bounds     access. A local user permitted to access a floppy drive     could use this to cause a denial of service (crash or     memory corruption) or possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2020-10711     Matthew Sheets reported NULL pointer dereference issues     in the SELinux subsystem while receiving CIPSO packet     with null category. A remote attacker can take advantage     of this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash). Note     that this issue does not affect the binary packages     distributed in Debian as CONFIG_NETLABEL is not enabled.

  - CVE-2020-10732     An information leak of kernel private memory to     userspace was found in the kernel's implementation of     core dumping userspace processes.

  - CVE-2020-10751     Dmitry Vyukov reported that the SELinux subsystem did     not properly handle validating multiple messages, which     could allow a privileged attacker to bypass SELinux     netlink restrictions.

  - CVE-2020-10757     Fan Yang reported a flaw in the way mremap handled DAX     hugepages, allowing a local user to escalate their     privileges

  - CVE-2020-10942     It was discovered that the vhost_net driver did not     properly validate the type of sockets set as back-ends.
    A local user permitted to access /dev/vhost-net could     use this to cause a stack corruption via crafted system     calls, resulting in denial of service (crash) or     possibly privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2020-11494     It was discovered that the slcan (serial line CAN)     network driver did not fully initialise CAN headers for     received packets, resulting in an information leak from     the kernel to user-space or over the CAN network.

  - CVE-2020-11565     Entropy Moe reported that the shared memory filesystem     (tmpfs) did not correctly handle an 'mpol' mount option     specifying an empty node list, leading to a stack-based     out-of-bounds write. If user namespaces are enabled, a     local user could use this to cause a denial of service     (crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2020-11608, CVE-2020-11609, CVE-2020-11668     It was discovered that the ov519, stv06xx, and     xirlink_cit media drivers did not properly validate USB     device descriptors. A physically present user with a     specially constructed USB device could use this to cause     a denial-of-service (crash) or possibly for privilege     escalation.

  - CVE-2020-12114     Piotr Krysiuk discovered a race condition between the     umount and pivot_root operations in the filesystem core     (vfs). A local user with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability in     any user namespace could use this to cause a denial of     service (crash).

  - CVE-2020-12464     Kyungtae Kim reported a race condition in the USB core     that can result in a use-after-free. It is not clear how     this can be exploited, but it could result in a denial     of service (crash or memory corruption) or privilege     escalation.

  - CVE-2020-12652     Tom Hatskevich reported a bug in the mptfusion storage     drivers. An ioctl handler fetched a parameter from user     memory twice, creating a race condition which could     result in incorrect locking of internal data structures.
    A local user permitted to access /dev/mptctl could use     this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory     corruption) or for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2020-12653     It was discovered that the mwifiex WiFi driver did not     sufficiently validate scan requests, resulting a     potential heap buffer overflow. A local user with     CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could use this to cause a     denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or     possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2020-12654     It was discovered that the mwifiex WiFi driver did not     sufficiently validate WMM parameters received from an     access point (AP), resulting a potential heap buffer     overflow. A malicious AP could use this to cause a     denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or     possibly to execute code on a vulnerable system.

  - CVE-2020-12770     It was discovered that the sg (SCSI generic) driver did     not correctly release internal resources in a particular     error case. A local user permitted to access an sg     device could possibly use this to cause a denial of     service (resource exhaustion).

  - CVE-2020-13143     Kyungtae Kim reported a potential heap out-of-bounds     write in the USB gadget subsystem. A local user     permitted to write to the gadget configuration     filesystem could use this to cause a denial of service     (crash or memory corruption) or potentially for     privilege escalation.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - In the Android kernel in the kernel MMU code there is a possible execution path leaving some kernel text     and rodata pages writable. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution     privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. (CVE-2019-2182)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

CVE-2019-2182

Hanjun Guo and Lei Li reported a race condition in the arm64 virtual memory management code, which could lead to an information disclosure, denial of service (crash), or possibly privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-5108

Mitchell Frank of Cisco discovered that when the IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) stack was used in AP mode with roaming, it would trigger roaming for a newly associated station before the station was authenticated. An attacker within range of the AP could use this to cause a denial of service, either by filling up a switching table or by redirecting traffic away from other stations.

CVE-2019-19319

Jungyeon discovered that a crafted filesystem can cause the ext4 implementation to deallocate or reallocate journal blocks. A user permitted to mount filesystems could use this to cause a denial of service (crash), or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19462

The syzbot tool found a missing error check in the 'relay' library used to implement various files under debugfs. A local user permitted to access debugfs could use this to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19768

Tristan Madani reported a race condition in the blktrace debug facility that could result in a use-after-free. A local user able to trigger removal of block devices could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (crash) or for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-20806

A potential NULL pointer dereference was discovered in the tw5864 media driver. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2019-20811

The Hulk Robot tool found a reference-counting bug in an error path in the network subsystem. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2020-0543

Researchers at VU Amsterdam discovered that on some Intel CPUs supporting the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions, part of a random value generated by these instructions may be used in a later speculative execution on any core of the same physical CPU. Depending on how these instructions are used by applications, a local user or VM guest could use this to obtain sensitive information such as cryptographic keys from other users or VMs.

This vulnerability can be mitigated by a microcode update, either as part of system firmware (BIOS) or through the intel-microcode package in Debian's non-free archive section. This kernel update only provides reporting of the vulnerability and the option to disable the mitigation if it is not needed.

CVE-2020-2732

Paulo Bonzini discovered that the KVM implementation for Intel processors did not properly handle instruction emulation for L2 guests when nested virtualization is enabled. This could allow an L2 guest to cause privilege escalation, denial of service, or information leaks in the L1 guest.

CVE-2020-8428

Al Viro discovered a potential use-after-free in the filesystem core (vfs). A local user could exploit this to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly to obtain sensitive information from the kernel.

CVE-2020-8647, CVE-2020-8649

The Hulk Robot tool found a potential MMIO out-of-bounds access in the vgacon driver. A local user permitted to access a virtual terminal (/dev/tty1 etc.) on a system using the vgacon driver could use this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2020-8648

The syzbot tool found a race condition in the the virtual terminal driver, which could result in a use-after-free. A local user permitted to access a virtual terminal could use this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2020-9383

Jordy Zomer reported an incorrect range check in the floppy driver which could lead to a static out-of-bounds access. A local user permitted to access a floppy drive could use this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2020-10711

Matthew Sheets reported NULL pointer dereference issues in the SELinux subsystem while receiving CIPSO packet with null category. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash). Note that this issue does not affect the binary packages distributed in Debian as CONFIG_NETLABEL is not enabled.

CVE-2020-10732

An information leak of kernel private memory to userspace was found in the kernel's implementation of core dumping userspace processes.

CVE-2020-10751

Dmitry Vyukov reported that the SELinux subsystem did not properly handle validating multiple messages, which could allow a privileged attacker to bypass SELinux netlink restrictions.

CVE-2020-10757

Fan Yang reported a flaw in the way mremap handled DAX hugepages, allowing a local user to escalate their privileges

CVE-2020-10942

It was discovered that the vhost_net driver did not properly validate the type of sockets set as back-ends. A local user permitted to access /dev/vhost-net could use this to cause a stack corruption via crafted system calls, resulting in denial of service (crash) or possibly privilege escalation.

CVE-2020-11494

It was discovered that the slcan (serial line CAN) network driver did not fully initialise CAN headers for received packets, resulting in an information leak from the kernel to user-space or over the CAN network.

CVE-2020-11565

Entropy Moe reported that the shared memory filesystem (tmpfs) did not correctly handle an 'mpol' mount option specifying an empty node list, leading to a stack-based out-of-bounds write. If user namespaces are enabled, a local user could use this to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2020-11608, CVE-2020-11609, CVE-2020-11668

It was discovered that the ov519, stv06xx, and xirlink_cit media drivers did not properly validate USB device descriptors. A physically present user with a specially constructed USB device could use this to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2020-12114

Piotr Krysiuk discovered a race condition between the umount and pivot_root operations in the filesystem core (vfs). A local user with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability in any user namespace could use this to cause a denial of service (crash).

CVE-2020-12464

Kyungtae Kim reported a race condition in the USB core that can result in a use-after-free. It is not clear how this can be exploited, but it could result in a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or privilege escalation.

CVE-2020-12652

Tom Hatskevich reported a bug in the mptfusion storage drivers. An ioctl handler fetched a parameter from user memory twice, creating a race condition which could result in incorrect locking of internal data structures. A local user permitted to access /dev/mptctl could use this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or for privilege escalation.

CVE-2020-12653

It was discovered that the mwifiex WiFi driver did not sufficiently validate scan requests, resulting a potential heap buffer overflow. A local user with CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could use this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2020-12654

It was discovered that the mwifiex WiFi driver did not sufficiently validate WMM parameters received from an access point (AP), resulting a potential heap buffer overflow. A malicious AP could use this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or possibly to execute code on a vulnerable system.

CVE-2020-12770

It was discovered that the sg (SCSI generic) driver did not correctly release internal resources in a particular error case. A local user permitted to access an sg device could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion).

CVE-2020-13143

Kyungtae Kim reported a potential heap out-of-bounds write in the USB gadget subsystem. A local user permitted to write to the gadget configuration filesystem could use this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or potentially for privilege escalation.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 4.9.210-1+deb9u1~deb8u1. This version also fixes some related bugs that do not have their own CVE IDs, and a regression in the macvlan driver introduced in the previous security update (bug #952660).

We recommend that you upgrade your linux-4.9 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
137340	Debian DSA-4698-1 : linux - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	6/11/2020	3/7/2024	high
246286	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-2182	Nessus	Misc.	8/8/2025	9/5/2025	high
137339	Debian DLA-2242-1 : linux-4.9 security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	6/11/2020	3/7/2024	high

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