CVE-2019-14898

The fix for CVE-2019-11599 was not complete. A local user could use this flaw to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service, or possibly have other unspecified impacts by triggering a race condition with mmget_not_zero or get_task_mm calls.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel versions prior to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 GA kernel (version 3.10.0-1062 released via RHSA-2019:2029) were never affected by CVE-2019-14898 (ie the incomplete fix for CVE-2019-1159) because they never backported the incomplete fix for CVE-2019-11599 in the first place; CVE-2019-11599 was fixed there fully, ie backport consisted of both CVE-2019-11599 and CVE-2019-14898 patches.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.