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

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2024-08-04T21:31:37.556Z

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

Link: CVE-2019-8980

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

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

Link: CVE-2019-8980

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-02-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-8980 - Bugzilla