CVE-2019-15666 (GCVE-0-2019-15666)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-08-27 04:49 – Updated: 2024-08-05 00:56
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Summary
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.19. There is an out-of-bounds array access in __xfrm_policy_unlink, which will cause denial of service, because verify_newpolicy_info in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c mishandles directory validation.
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