CVE-2019-8998 (GCVE-0-2019-8998)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-07-12 15:30
Modified
2025-08-22 15:09
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Information disclosure leading to a potential local escalation of privilege
  • CWE-413 - Improper Resource Locking
Summary
An information disclosure vulnerability leading to a potential local escalation of privilege in the procfs service (the /proc filesystem) of BlackBerry QNX Software Development Platform version(s) 6.5.0 SP1 and earlier could allow an attacker to potentially gain unauthorized access to a chosen process address space.
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BlackBerry QNX Software Development Platform (QNX SDP) Version: 6.5.0 SP1 and earlier
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