An issue was discovered in con_insert_unipair in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is a memory leak in a certain case of an ENOMEM outcome of kmalloc. NOTE: This id is disputed as not being an issue

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue was discovered in con_insert_unipair in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c in the Linux kernel through     5.1.5. There is a memory leak in a certain case of an ENOMEM outcome of kmalloc. NOTE: This id is disputed     as not being an issue (CVE-2019-12379)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

An update of the linux package has been released.

Update to v5.1.7

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Rebase to the v5.1 kernel series

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
251880	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-12379	Nessus	Misc.	medium
202873	Photon OS 3.0: Linux PHSA-2019-3.0-0021	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
131845	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-2353)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
126176	Photon OS 1.0: Linux PHSA-2019-1.0-0240	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
126106	Photon OS 2.0: Linux PHSA-2019-2.0-0165	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
125790	Fedora 30 : kernel / kernel-headers (2019-f40bd7826f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
125746	Fedora 29 : kernel / kernel-headers / kernel-tools (2019-7ec378191e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2019-12379

medium

Tenable Plugins

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critical

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