CVE-2019-12378

unknown

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

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Description

An issue was discovered in ip6_ra_control in net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is an unchecked kmalloc of new_ra, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash). NOTE: This has been disputed as not an issue

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-12378

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12378.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	affected
debian	bullseye	affected
debian	forky	affected
debian	sid	affected
debian	trixie	affected

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12378.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-12378

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.