CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-15921
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.6. There is a memory leak issue when idr_alloc() fails in genl_register_family() in net/netlink/genetlink.c.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.0.6)
• opensuse leap 15.0
• opensuse leap 15.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.6 Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ceabee6c59943bdd5e1da1a6a20dc7ee5f8113a2 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/ Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.6 Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ceabee6c59943bdd5e1da1a6a20dc7ee5f8113a2 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/ Third Party Advisory