CVE-2019-16089

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

06/09/2019

Last modified:

07/11/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.2.13. nbd_genl_status in drivers/block/nbd.c does not check the nla_nest_start_noflag return value.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.10 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

4.10

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.70 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete