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Medium USN-4271-1 1 CVE

mesa vulnerability

Published Feb 6, 2020 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Tim Brown discovered that Mesa incorrectly handled shared memory
permissions. A local attacker could use this issue to obtain and possibly
alter sensitive information belonging to another user.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS mesa 19.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.1
    CVE-2019-5068

    An exploitable shared memory permissions vulnerability exists in the functionality of X11 Mesa 3D Graphics Library 19.1…

    mesa mesa Debian Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-5068