CVE-2019-12381

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-05-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in ip_ra_control in net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is an unchecked kmalloc of new_ra, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash). NOTE: this is disputed because new_ra is never used if it is NULL

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 5.1.5

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108473
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1715501
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=425aa0e1d01513437668fa3d4a971168bbaa8515
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J36BIJTKEPUOZKJNHQBUZA47RQONUKOI/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KLGWJKLMTBBB53D5QLS4HOY2EH246WBE/
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/25/230
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108473
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1715501
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=425aa0e1d01513437668fa3d4a971168bbaa8515
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J36BIJTKEPUOZKJNHQBUZA47RQONUKOI/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KLGWJKLMTBBB53D5QLS4HOY2EH246WBE/
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/25/230

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