CVE-2019-12379

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's coninsertunipair function in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c. An attacker, with local physical access to the system and local virtual terminal level access, is able to leak memory in certain cases of ENOMEM outcomes of kmalloc...

CVE-2019-12378

An issue was discovered in ip6racontrol in net/ipv6/ipv6sockglue.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is an unchecked kmalloc of newra, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash. NOTE: This has been disputed as not an issue...

CVE-2019-12381

An issue was discovered in ipracontrol in net/ipv4/ipsockglue.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is an unchecked kmalloc of newra, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash. NOTE: this is disputed because newra is never used if it...

CVE-2019-12381

An issue was discovered in ipracontrol in net/ipv4/ipsockglue.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is an unchecked kmalloc of newra, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash. NOTE: this is disputed because newra is never used if it...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12378

An issue was discovered in ip6racontrol in net/ipv6/ipv6sockglue.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is an unchecked kmalloc of newra, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash. NOTE: This has been disputed as not an issue...

CVE-2019-12379

An issue was discovered in coninsertunipair in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is a memory leak in a certain case of an ENOMEM outcome of kmalloc. NOTE: This id is disputed as not being an issue...

CVE-2019-12379

The connected Nessus UNPATCHED_CVE_2019_12379 entry confirms CVE-2019-12379 affects Linux kernel code path con_insert_unipair in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c (up to kernel 5.1.5) with a memory leak in an ENOMEM/kmalloc scenario. The description explicitly notes this issue is disputed as an actual ...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-1404) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. bsc1111331 - CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBDS - CVE-2018-12127: Microarchitectural Fill...

CVE-2018-16880

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handlerx function in the vhostnet driver. A malicious virtual guest, under specific conditions, can trigger an out-of-bounds write in a kmalloc-8 slab on a virtual host which may lead to a kernel memory corruption and a system panic. Due to the nature of the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16880

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handlerx function in the vhostnet driver. A malicious virtual guest, under specific conditions, can trigger an out-of-bounds write in a kmalloc-8 slab on a virtual host which may lead to a kernel memory corruption and a system panic. Due to the nature of the...

CVE-2018-16880

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handlerx function in the vhostnet driver. A malicious virtual guest, under specific conditions, can trigger an out-of-bounds write in a kmalloc-8 slab on a virtual host which may lead to a kernel memory corruption and a system panic. Due to the nature of the...

CVE-2018-16880

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handlerx function in the vhostnet driver. A malicious virtual guest, under specific conditions, can trigger an out-of-bounds write in a kmalloc-8 slab on a virtual host which may lead to a kernel memory corruption and a system panic. Due to the nature of the...

CVE-2018-19939

The Goodix GT9xx touchscreen driver for custom Linux kernels on Xiaomi daisy-o-oss and daisy-p-oss as used in Mi A2 Lite and RedMi6 pro devices through 2018-08-27 has a NULL pointer dereference in kfree after a kmalloc failure in gtpreadColor in drivers/input/touchscreen/gt917d/gt9xx.c...

Null pointer dereference

The Goodix GT9xx touchscreen driver for custom Linux kernels on Xiaomi daisy-o-oss and daisy-p-oss as used in Mi A2 Lite and RedMi6 pro devices through 2018-08-27 has a NULL pointer dereference in kfree after a kmalloc failure in gtpreadColor in drivers/input/touchscreen/gt917d/gt9xx.c...

CVE-2018-19939

The Goodix GT9xx touchscreen driver for custom Linux kernels on Xiaomi daisy-o-oss and daisy-p-oss as used in Mi A2 Lite and RedMi6 pro devices through 2018-08-27 has a NULL pointer dereference in kfree after a kmalloc failure in gtpreadColor in drivers/input/touchscreen/gt917d/gt9xx.c...

CVE-2018-19939

The Goodix GT9xx touchscreen driver for custom Linux kernels on Xiaomi daisy-o-oss and daisy-p-oss as used in Mi A2 Lite and RedMi6 pro devices through 2018-08-27 has a NULL pointer dereference in kfree after a kmalloc failure in gtpreadColor in drivers/input/touchscreen/gt917d/gt9xx.c...

CVE-2018-19939

The CVE-2018-19939 entry concerns the Goodix GT9xx touchscreen driver used in Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite and RedMi6 pro on custom Linux kernels up to 2018-08-27. Root cause: NULL pointer dereference in kfree following a kmalloc failure in gtp_read_Color within drivers/input/touchscreen/gt917d/gt9xx.c. Imp...

CVE-2018-12233

CVE-2018-12233 is a memory-corruption flaw in the Linux kernel’s JFS implementation (fs/jfs/xattr.c) that can be triggered by calling setxattr twice with two different extended attribute names on the same file. The issue stems from an incorrect kmalloc leading to slab-out-of-bounds in jfs_xattr a...

CVE-2018-12233

In the eaget function in fs/jfs/xattr.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.1, a memory corruption bug in JFS can be triggered by calling setxattr twice with two different extended attribute names on the same file. This vulnerability can be triggered by an unprivileged user with the ability to creat...

Linux kernel local privilege escalation flaw in n_hdlc（CVE-2017-2636）

This article discloses the exploitation of CVE-2017-2636, which is a race condition in the nhdlc Linux kernel driver drivers/tty/nhdlc.c. The described exploit gains root privileges bypassing Supervisor Mode Execution Protection SMEP. This driver provides HDLC serial line discipline and comes as ...