Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELHEADERS-3834075
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Dec 2019

Introduced: 28 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-20054  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.

In the Linux kernel before 5.0.6, there is a NULL pointer dereference in drop_sysctl_table() in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c, related to put_links, aka CID-23da9588037e.