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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2019-25162 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: Fix a potential use after free Free the adap structure only after we are done using it. This patch just moves the put_device() down a bit to avoid the use after free. [wsa: added comment to the code, adde

[NVD] CVE-2019-25162 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: Fix a potential use after free Free the adap structure only after we are done using it. This patch just moves the put_device() down a bit to avoid the use after free. [wsa: added comment to the code, adde

lownvdPublished 2024-02-26

CVE-2019-25162 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2024-02-26T18:15:07.043

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

i2c: Fix a potential use after free

Free the adap structure only after we are done using it. This patch just moves the put_device() down a bit to avoid the use after free.

[wsa: added comment to the code, added Fixes tag]

Indicators of compromise

CVE-2019-25162cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-25162