Security Advisory

CVE-2019-6974

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-02-15 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-04 20:38:32
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel before 4.20.8, kvm_ioctl_create_device in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c mishandles reference counting because of a race condition, leading to a use-after-free.