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Ubuntu: USN-4258-1 (CVE-2019-19079): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4258-1 (CVE-2019-19079): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/18/2019
Created
01/30/2020
Added
01/29/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A memory leak in the qrtr_tun_write_iter() function in net/qrtr/tun.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-a21b7f0cff19.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-0-0-1010-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-0-0-1024-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-0-0-1029-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-0-0-1029-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws-edge
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke-5-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-edge

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