cve/2019/CVE-2019-20172.md

### [CVE-2019-20172](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-20172)
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### Description

Kernel/VM/MemoryManager.cpp in SerenityOS before 2019-12-30 does not reject syscalls with pointers into the kernel-only virtual address space, which allows local users to gain privileges by overwriting a return address that was found on the kernel stack.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon