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CVE-2019-15916

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.

Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 2.6.38 < 3.16.70
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 3.17 < 3.18.137
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 3.19 < 4.4.177
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 4.5 < 4.9.163
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 4.10 < 4.14.106
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 4.15 < 4.19.28
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 4.20 < 4.20.15
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.0 < 5.0.1
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 2.61% 0.851
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 7.5 3.9 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd@nist.gov 7.8 10 6.9
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.