CVE-2019-12378 (GCVE-0-2019-12378)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-05-28 02:04 – Updated: 2024-08-04 23:17 Disputed
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
An issue was discovered in ip6_ra_control in net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is an unchecked kmalloc of new_ra, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash). NOTE: This has been disputed as not an issue
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/25/229 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/d… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108475 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
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