CVE-2019-9458

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's video driver. A race condition, leading to a use-after-free, could lead to a local privilege escalation. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.

This issue is rated as having Moderate impact, because of the need of additional privileges (usually local console user) to access the video device driver.

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.

To mitigate this issue, prevent modules v4l2-common, v4l2-dv-timings from being loaded if not being used for primary display. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.