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Debian: CVE-2019-8956: linux -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 1, 2019
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In the Linux Kernel before versions 4.20.8 and 4.19.21 a use-after-free error in the "sctp_sendmsg()" function (net/sctp/socket.c) when handling SCTP_SENDALL flag can be exploited to corrupt memory.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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