# CVE-2019-12455: An issue was discovered in sunxi\_divs\_clk\_setup in drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sunxi.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-05-30 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in sunxi_divs_clk_setup in drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sunxi.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is an unchecked kstrndup of derived_name, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash). NOTE: This id is disputed as not being an issue because “The memory allocation that was not checked is part of a code that only runs at boot time, before user processes are started. Therefore, there is no possibility for an unprivileged user to control it, and no denial of service.”

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## References

- https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel%40vger.kernel.org/msg2010240.html
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sunxi/linux.git/commit/?h=sunxi/clk-for-5.3&id=fcdf445ff42f036d22178b49cf64e92d527c1330
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J36BIJTKEPUOZKJNHQBUZA47RQONUKOI/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190710-0002/

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