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CVE-2019-8912 - log back

CVE-2019-8912 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity	+ Critical
Remote	+ Remote
Type	+ Arbitrary code execution
Description	+ In the Linux kernel through 4.20.10, af_alg_release() in crypto/af_alg.c neglects to set a NULL value for a certain structure member, which leads to a use-after-free in sockfs_setattr.
References	+ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1042902/ + https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9060cb719e61b685ec0102574e10337fa5f445ea
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