vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2019-16994: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 30, 2019
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel before 5.0, a memory leak exists in sit_init_net() in net/ipv6/sit.c when register_netdev() fails to register sitn->fb_tunnel_dev, which may cause denial of service, aka CID-07f12b26e21a.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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