Security Advisory

CVE-2019-8980

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-02-21 05:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-04 21:31:37

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

A memory leak in the kernel_read_file function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel through 4.20.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering vfs_read failures.

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