CVE-2019-16994 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-16994?

CVE-2019-16994 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 30 Sep 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel before 5.0, a memory leak exists in sit_init_net() in net/ipv6/sit.c when register_netdev() fails to register sitn->fb_tunnel_dev, which may cause denial of service, aka CID-07f12b26e21a.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-16994?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Linux kernel, Opensuse Leap, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2019-16994?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-16994 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-16994 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-16994, GHSA-j78w-mvwv-rwcf, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16994.