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Tracker / CVE-2019-15916

CVE-2019-15916

High 7.5

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.1. There is a memory leak in register_queue_kobjects() in net/core/net-sysfs.c, which will cause denial of service.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 2.6.38 → 3.16.70
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.137
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.4.177
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.106
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.28
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 4.20.15
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.163
linux linux_kernel · 5.0 → 5.0.1

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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