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Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-obs-qa  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-KERNELOBSQA-2756165
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed28 Mar 2019
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Introduced: 28 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-8980  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.0.

NVD Description

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

A memory leak in the kernel_read_file function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel through 4.20.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering vfs_read failures.