vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-15921

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 4, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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