CVE-2019-5068

Publication date 5 November 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.4 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

An exploitable shared memory permissions vulnerability exists in the functionality of X11 Mesa 3D Graphics Library 19.1.2. An attacker can access the shared memory without any specific permissions to trigger this vulnerability.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
mesa 19.10 eoan
Fixed 19.2.8-0ubuntu0~19.10.2
19.04 disco Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 19.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

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mesa and its build dependencies have been updated for the HWE stack in bionic, so to fix this there will require no-change rebuilds in the security pocket for libdrm, libclc, wayland, and llvm-toolchain-9.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
mesa

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 4.4 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

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