CVE-2019-0155

Published: 12 November 2019

Insufficient access control in a subsystem for Intel (R) processor graphics in 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Processor Families; Intel(R) Pentium(R) Processor J, N, Silver and Gold Series; Intel(R) Celeron(R) Processor J, N, G3900 and G4900 Series; Intel(R) Atom(R) Processor A and E3900 Series; Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor E3-1500 v5 and v6, E-2100 and E-2200 Processor Families; Intel(R) Graphics Driver for Windows before 26.20.100.6813 (DCH) or 26.20.100.6812 and before 21.20.x.5077 (aka15.45.5077), i915 Linux Driver for Intel(R) Processor Graphics before versions 5.4-rc7, 5.3.11, 4.19.84, 4.14.154, 4.9.201, 4.4.201 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that the Intel i915 graphics chipsets allowed userspace to modify page table entries via writes to MMIO from the Blitter Command Streamer and expose kernel memory information. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information or possibly elevate privileges.

Notes

This issue only affects Intel® Graphics Processing Units

Status

Severity score breakdown

References

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/TAA_MCEPSC_i915
• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00242.html
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4183-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4184-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4185-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4186-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4186-2
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4185-3
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4183-2
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4186-3
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4184-2
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-0155
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian