CVE-2019-3837

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 6.1
EPSS
EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Modified

Description

It was found that the net_dma code in tcp_recvmsg() in the 2.6.32 kernel as shipped in RHEL6 is thread-unsafe. So an unprivileged multi-threaded userspace application calling recvmsg() for the same network socket in parallel executed on ioatdma-enabled hardware with net_dma enabled can leak the memory, crash the host leading to a denial-of-service or cause a random memory corruption.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Hredhat
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.9AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
The Linux Foundation · kernelaffected 2.6.32 as shipped in rhel-6

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD