CVE-2019-11191

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

The Linux kernel through 5.0.7, when CONFIG_IA32_AOUT is enabled and ia32_aout is loaded, allows local users to bypass ASLR on setuid a.out programs (if any exist) because install_exec_creds() is called too late in load_aout_binary() in fs/binfmt_aout.c, and thus the ptrace_may_access() check has a race condition when reading /proc/pid/stat. NOTE: the software maintainer disputes that this is a vulnerability because ASLR for a.out format executables has never been supported

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-11191

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11191.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyaffected
debian debiansidaffected
debian debiantrixieaffected

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.