CVE-2019-15921

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    CVE-2019-15921

    Published: 4 Sept 2019Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.6. There is a memory leak issue when idr_alloc() fails in genl_register_family() in net/netlink/genetlink.c.

    References: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html, https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.6, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ceabee6c59943bdd5e1da1a6a20dc7ee5f8113a2

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