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Debian: CVE-2019-18808: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-18808: linux -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/07/2019
Created
09/28/2020
Added
09/28/2020
Modified
09/30/2020

Description

A memory leak in the ccp_run_sha_cmd() function in drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-128c66429247.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

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