NetSight
high7.5

CVE-2019-15916

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.1.

Impact

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.1. There is a memory leak in register_queue_kobjects() in net/core/net-sysfs.c, which will cause denial of service.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 2.6.38 before 3.16.70
from 3.17 before 3.18.137
from 3.19 before 4.4.177
from 4.5 before 4.9.163
from 4.10 before 4.14.106
from 4.15 before 4.19.28

Weakness classification

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