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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-02-21T05:00:00

Updated: 2019-05-03T11:06:03

Reserved: 2019-02-20T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2019-8980

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-02-21T05:29:01.197

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:13:34.973


Link: CVE-2019-8980

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