{"schema_version":"1.7.5","id":"CVE-2019-15921","published":"2019-09-04T19:15:12.207Z","modified":"2026-03-15T22:30:46.805065Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2019:2412-1","SUSE-SU-2019:2414-1","SUSE-SU-2019:2424-1","SUSE-SU-2019:2648-1","SUSE-SU-2019:2651-1","SUSE-SU-2019:2658-1","SUSE-SU-2019:2738-1","SUSE-SU-2019:2756-1","openSUSE-SU-2019:2173-1","openSUSE-SU-2019:2181-1"],"details":"An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.6. There is a memory leak issue when idr_alloc() fails in genl_register_family() in net/netlink/genetlink.c.","affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-15921.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.0.6"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"15.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"15.1"}]}]}}],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.6"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ceabee6c59943bdd5e1da1a6a20dc7ee5f8113a2"}],"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}