Security Advisory
CVE-2019-12615
7.5
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
An issue was discovered in get_vdev_port_node_info in arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.6. There is an unchecked kstrdup_const of node_info->vdev_port.name, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash).
Published Date
June 3, 2019
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory