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CVE-2019-12379

Published: 28 May 2019

** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in con_insert_unipair in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is a memory leak in a certain case of an ENOMEM outcome of kmalloc. NOTE: This id is disputed as not being an issue.

Notes

AuthorNote
tyhicks
This is not an actual issue. Please see Ben Hutchings'
analysis/revert in the lore reference above.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
linux
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(not an issue)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Ignored
(was needs-triage ESM criteria)
upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(not an issue)
Patches:
Introduced by

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2

Fixed by 84ecc2f6eb1cb12e6d44818f94fa49b50f06e6ac
linux-aws
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(not an issue)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Ignored
(was needs-triage ESM criteria)
upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(not an issue)
linux-aws-hwe
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(not an issue)
linux-azure
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(not an issue)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Ignored
(was needs-triage ESM criteria)
upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(not an issue)
linux-azure-edge
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(not an issue)
cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(end of standard support)
linux-euclid
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
linux-flo
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(abandoned)
linux-gcp
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(not an issue)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(not an issue)
linux-gcp-edge
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(not an issue)
cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Does not exist

linux-gke
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(end of life)
linux-gke-4.15
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(not an issue)
disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Does not exist

linux-gke-5.0
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(not an issue)
disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Does not exist

linux-goldfish
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(end of life)
linux-grouper
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Does not exist

linux-hwe
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(not an issue)
cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(not an issue)
linux-hwe-edge
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(not an issue)
cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(not an issue)
linux-kvm
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(not an issue)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(not an issue)
linux-lts-trusty
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Does not exist

linux-lts-utopic
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Does not exist

linux-lts-vivid
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Does not exist

linux-lts-wily
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Does not exist

linux-lts-xenial
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Ignored
(was needs-triage ESM criteria)
upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Does not exist

linux-maguro
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Does not exist

linux-mako
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(abandoned)
linux-manta
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Does not exist

linux-oem
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(not an issue)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
linux-oracle
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(not an issue)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(not an issue)
linux-raspi2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(end of standard support)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(not an issue)
linux-snapdragon
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(end of standard support)
cosmic Does not exist

disco Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Ignored
(not an issue)
xenial Ignored
(not an issue)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H