CVE-2019-20811

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.6. In rx_queue_add_kobject() and netdev_queue_add_kobject() in net/core/net-sysfs.c, a reference count is mishandled, aka CID-a3e23f719f5c.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4527-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a3e23f719f5c4a38ffb3d30c8d7632a4ed8ccd9e

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3