CVE-2019-12379 (GCVE-0-2019-12379)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-05-28 02:04 – Updated: 2024-08-04 23:17 Disputed
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Summary
An issue was discovered in con_insert_unipair in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is a memory leak in a certain case of an ENOMEM outcome of kmalloc. NOTE: This id is disputed as not being an issue
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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