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
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