CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-8980
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-02-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
A memory leak in the kernel_read_file function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel through 4.20.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering vfs_read failures.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.7 < 4.9.163)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.14 < 4.14.106)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19 < 4.19.28)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 4.20.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.0 < 5.0.1)
• linux linux kernel 5.1
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
• opensuse leap 15.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00052.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107120 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K56480726 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3930-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3930-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3931-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3931-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel%40vger.kernel.org/msg1935698.html www.mail-archive.com
- https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel%40vger.kernel.org/msg1935705.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00052.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107120 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K56480726 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3930-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3930-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3931-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3931-2/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel%40vger.kernel.org/msg1935698.html www.mail-archive.com
- https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel%40vger.kernel.org/msg1935705.html www.mail-archive.com