CVE-2019-15921

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

4.7 medium

EPSS

<1%p41

Published

Sep 4, 2019 (Sep 4, 2019)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.6. There is a memory leak issue when idr_alloc() fails in genl_register_family() in net/netlink/genetlink.c.

Vendors: linux opensuse
Products: linux kernel, leap
Weakness: CWE-401
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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