Bug 1718179 (CVE-2019-12615) - CVE-2019-12615 kernel: null pointer dereference in get_vdev_port_node_info in arch /sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
Summary: CVE-2019-12615 kernel: null pointer dereference in get_vdev_port_node_info in...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2019-12615
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1718185
Blocks: 1718183
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Reported: 2019-06-07 08:14 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2020-02-24 15:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-02-24 15:49:01 UTC
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-06-07 08:14:38 UTC 
An issue was discovered in get_vdev_port_node_info in arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
in the Linux kernel through 5.1.6. There is an unchecked kstrdup_const of
node_info->vdev_port.name, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of
service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash).

Reference:
https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg2014901.html

Upstream commit:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc.git/commit/?id=80caf43549e7e41a695c6d1e11066286538b336f
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-06-07 08:18:41 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1718185]
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