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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-5068

An exploitable shared memory permissions vulnerability exists in the functionality of X11 Mesa 3D Graphics Library 19.1.2. An attacker can access the shared memory without any specific permissions to trigger this vulnerability.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:36 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-5068

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Nov 2019, 22:15 UTC

An exploitable shared memory permissions vulnerability exists in the functionality of X11 Mesa 3D Graphics Library 19.1.2. An attacker can access the shared memory without any specific permissions to trigger this vulnerability.

osv:CVE-2019-5068
Complete source record
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