CVE-2019-20811 Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.0.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004421
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Jun 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jun 2020

CVE-2019-20811  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.0.6 or higher.

Overview

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.6. In rx_queue_add_kobject() and netdev_queue_add_kobject() in net/core/net-sysfs.c, a reference count is mishandled, aka CID-a3e23f719f5c.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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