CVE-2019-12455

Description

** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in sunxi_divs_clk_setup in drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sunxi.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is an unchecked kstrndup of derived_name, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash). NOTE: This id is disputed as not being an issue because “The memory allocation that was not checked is part of a code that only runs at boot time, before user processes are started. Therefore, there is no possibility for an unprivileged user to control it, and no denial of service.”.

References

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sunxi/linux.git/commit/?h=sunxi/clk-for-5.3&id=fcdf445ff42f036d22178b49cf64e92d527c1330

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/J36BIJTKEPUOZKJNHQBUZA47RQONUKOI/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190710-0002/

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg2010240.html

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3