vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2019-18198: kernel: reference count usage error in fib6_rule_suppress function in net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 18, 2019
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel before 5.3.4, a reference count usage error in the fib6_rule_suppress() function in the fib6 suppression feature of net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c, when handling the FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF flag, can be exploited by a local attacker to corrupt memory, aka CID-ca7a03c41753.

Solution

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