CVE-2019-12984: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the function nfc_genl_deactivate_target() in net/nfc/netlink.c in the Linux kernel before 5.1.13 can be triggered by a malicious user-mode program that omits certain NFC attributes, leading to denial of service.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.1.13 (fixed in 5.1.13)

Published 2019-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.