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Kernel vulnerability CVE-2019-14835

Description

A buffer overflow flaw was found, in versions from 2.6.34 to 5.2.x, in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host. ([CVE-2019-14835](<https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14835>)) Impact There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.


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