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SUSE: CVE-2019-20054: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2019-20054: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
12/28/2019
Created
01/17/2020
Added
01/15/2020
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

In the Linux kernel before 5.0.6, there is a NULL pointer dereference in drop_sysctl_table() in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c, related to put_links, aka CID-23da9588037e.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-azure-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-man
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build

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