Bug 1750813 (CVE-2019-15916)
| Summary: | CVE-2019-15916 kernel: memory leak in register_queue_kobjects() in net/core/net-sysfs.c leads to denial of service | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | acaringi, airlied, bhu, blc, brdeoliv, bskeggs, dhoward, dvlasenk, esammons, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jeremy, jforbes, jglisse, jlelli, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, jross, jshortt, jstancek, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, linville, masami256, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mjg59, mlangsdo, mmilgram, nmurray, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, sbrivio, steved, williams, wmealing, yozone |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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A flaw that allowed an attacker to leak kernel memory was found in the network subsystem where an attacker with permissions to create tun/tap devices can create a denial of service and panic the system.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-11-06 00:53:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1718393, 1750814, 1752690, 1752691, 1752692, 1752693, 1752694, 1752695, 1752700, 1828334, 1828335, 1838782, 1838783 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1750818 | ||
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Description
Dhananjay Arunesh
2019-09-10 14:05:41 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1750814] This was fixed for Fedora with the 4.20.15 stable kernel updates This flaw is rated as moderate, it is a memory leak that a requires a a local user to have access privileges on a local network device and the ability to issue an ioctl to a tun/tap device. This is usually a priviledged operation and not available to all users on the system. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2019:3309 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3309 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2019:3517 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3517 This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-15916 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2020:0740 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0740 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2020:1016 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1016 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2020:1070 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1070 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2020:2522 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2522 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2020:2851 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2851 |