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CentOS Linux: CVE-2019-15916: Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 4, 2019
Added
Nov 6, 2019
Modified
May 25, 2023

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.1. There is a memory leak in register_queue_kobjects() in net/core/net-sysfs.c, which will cause denial of service.

Solutions

centos-upgrade-kernelcentos-upgrade-kernel-rt
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