Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-doc package, versions <0:4.18.0-147.el8
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELDOC-3605883
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 30 Sep 2019
Introduced: 30 Sep 2019
CVE-2019-16994 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-doc to version 0:4.18.0-147.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:3517.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel before 5.0, a memory leak exists in sit_init_net() in net/ipv6/sit.c when register_netdev() fails to register sitn->fb_tunnel_dev, which may cause denial of service, aka CID-07f12b26e21a.
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0005/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16994
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/07f12b26e21ab359261bf75cfcb424fdc7daeb6d
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=07f12b26e21ab359261bf75cfcb424fdc7daeb6d
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3517
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html
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