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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-20054: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4431)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 28, 2019
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel before 5.0.6, there is a NULL pointer dereference in drop_sysctl_table() in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c, related to put_links, aka CID-23da9588037e.

Solution

alma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel
Title
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