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Tracker / CVE-2019-8912

CVE-2019-8912

High 7.8

In the Linux kernel through 4.20.11, af_alg_release() in crypto/af_alg.c neglects to set a NULL value for a certain structure member, which leads to a use-after-free in sockfs_setattr.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.103
linux linux_kernel · 4.19 → 4.19.25
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 4.20.12
opensuse leap
redhat enterprise_linux

Analysis

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