| Name | CVE-2019-12379 |
| Description | ** DISPUTED ** 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| linux (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.16.84-1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4.9.320-2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.9.320-3 | vulnerable |
| buster | 4.19.249-2 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 4.19.269-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 5.10.158-2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.162-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 6.1.15-1 | vulnerable |
| sid | 6.1.20-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| linux | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| linux | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
No real security issue and fix introduces real security issue, see kernel-sec