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CVE-2019-6974
8.1
HIGHCVSS v3
Published
February 15, 2019
CVSS v2
6.8 MEDIUM
Affected
1 project
Assigned by
MITRE
Severity scale
010
Description
In the Linux kernel before 4.20.8, kvm_ioctl_create_device in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c mishandles reference counting because of a race condition, leading to a use-after-free.
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