CVE-2019-12614: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.1. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in dlpar_parse_cc_property in arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.6. There is an unchecked kstrdup of prop->name, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash).

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.04 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only; version 30 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 5.1.6
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2019-06-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.