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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-15938

Pengutronix barebox through 2019.08.1 has a remote buffer overflow in nfs_readlink_req in fs/nfs.c because a length field is directly used for a memcpy.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:25 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-15938

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Sept 2019, 15:15 UTC

Pengutronix barebox through 2019.08.1 has a remote buffer overflow in nfs_readlink_req in fs/nfs.c because a length field is directly used for a memcpy.

osv:CVE-2019-15938
Complete source record
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