CVE-2019-8980

A memory leak in the kernelreadfile 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.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges

[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.7"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.9.163"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.14"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.14.106"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.19"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.19.28"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.20"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.20.15"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "5.0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "5.0.1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "5.1-rc1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "16.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "18.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "18.10"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "15.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-8980.json"