CVE-2019-12455

An issue was discovered in sunxi_divs_clk_setup in drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sunxi.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is an unchecked kstrndup of derived_name, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash). NOTE: This id is disputed as not being an issue because “The memory allocation that was not checked is part of a code that only runs at boot time, before user processes are started. Therefore, there is no possibility for an unprivileged user to control it, and no denial of service.”
Configurations

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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

07 Nov 2023, 03:03

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Summary ** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in sunxi_divs_clk_setup in drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sunxi.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is an unchecked kstrndup of derived_name, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash). NOTE: This id is disputed as not being an issue because “The memory allocation that was not checked is part of a code that only runs at boot time, before user processes are started. Therefore, there is no possibility for an unprivileged user to control it, and no denial of service.”. An issue was discovered in sunxi_divs_clk_setup in drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sunxi.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is an unchecked kstrndup of derived_name, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash). NOTE: This id is disputed as not being an issue because “The memory allocation that was not checked is part of a code that only runs at boot time, before user processes are started. Therefore, there is no possibility for an unprivileged user to control it, and no denial of service.”
References
  • {'url': 'https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg2010240.html', 'name': 'https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg2010240.html', 'tags': ['Mailing List', 'Third Party Advisory'], 'refsource': 'MISC'}
  • {'url': 'https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J36BIJTKEPUOZKJNHQBUZA47RQONUKOI/', 'name': 'FEDORA-2019-f40bd7826f', 'tags': [], 'refsource': 'FEDORA'}
  • () https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel%40vger.kernel.org/msg2010240.html -
  • () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J36BIJTKEPUOZKJNHQBUZA47RQONUKOI/ -

Information

Published : 2019-05-30 04:29

Updated : 2024-04-11 01:03


NVD link : CVE-2019-12455

Mitre link : CVE-2019-12455

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2019-12455


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Products Affected

linux

  • linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference