EDB-46388

functional

Linux - 'kvm_ioctl_create_device()' NULL Pointer Dereference

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype dosauthor Google Security Researchpublished 2019-02-15catalog exploit_db

exploited CVEs (1)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2019-6974US	high8.1	16.5% (97th)	Exploit	2019-02-15
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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