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Tracker / CVE-2019-8980

CVE-2019-8980

High 7.5

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 products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel
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 · 4.7 → 4.9.163
linux linux_kernel · 5.0 → 5.0.1
opensuse leap

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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