CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-12984

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2019-06-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-06-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the function nfc_genl_deactivate_target() in net/nfc/netlink.c in the Linux kernel before 5.1.13 can be triggered by a malicious user-mode program that omits certain NFC attributes, leading to denial of service.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.1.13)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References