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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-12382: kernel: unchecked kstrdup of fwstr in drm_load_edid_firmware leads to denial of service

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-12382: kernel: unchecked kstrdup of fwstr in drm_load_edid_firmware leads to denial of service

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/28/2019
Created
12/30/2020
Added
12/29/2020
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in drm_load_edid_firmware in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is an unchecked kstrdup of fwstr, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash). NOTE: The vendor disputes this issues as not being a vulnerability because kstrdup() returning NULL is handled sufficiently and there is no chance for a NULL pointer dereference

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

References

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