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Red Hat: CVE-2019-15920: CVE-2019-15920 kernel: use-after-free information leak in SMB2_read (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2019-15920: CVE-2019-15920 kernel: use-after-free information leak in SMB2_read (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
09/04/2019
Created
03/11/2021
Added
03/10/2021
Modified
03/13/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.10. SMB2_read in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c has a use-after-free. NOTE: this was not fixed correctly in 5.0.10; see the 5.0.11 ChangeLog, which documents a memory leak.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel

References

  • CVE-2019-15920
  • RHSA-2019:3517

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