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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-15921: kernel: memory leak in genl_register_family() in net/netlink/genetlink.c

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-15921: kernel: memory leak in genl_register_family() in net/netlink/genetlink.c

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
09/04/2019
Created
12/30/2020
Added
12/29/2020
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.6. There is a memory leak issue when idr_alloc() fails in genl_register_family() in net/netlink/genetlink.c.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

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