CVE-2019-15921

medium

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.

References

Advisories
More

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ceabee6c59943bdd5e1da1a6a20dc7ee5f8113a2

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-09-04

Updated: 2020-08-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H