# CVE-2019-1010066: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory msr-safe v1.1.0 is affected by: Incorrect Access Control.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-07-18 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory msr-safe: v1.1.0 \[fixed: v1.2.0\]

## Description

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory msr-safe v1.1.0 is affected by: Incorrect Access Control. The impact is: An attacker could modify model specific registers. The component is: ioctl handling. The attack vector is: An attacker could exploit a bug in ioctl interface whitelist checking, in order to write to model specific registers, normally a function reserved for the root user. The fixed version is: v1.2.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory msr-safe, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/LLNL/msr-safe/compare/v1.1.0...v1.2.0
- https://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.4/html/x856.html

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