CVE-2019-19054
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.7 · CWE-401
4.7CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
A memory leak in the cx23888_ir_probe() function in drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering kfifo_alloc() failures, aka CID-a7b2df76b42b.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (3)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a7b2df76b42bdd026e3106cf2ba97db41345a177 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a7b2df76b42bdd026e3106cf2ba97db41345a177Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.htmlAdvisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3PSDE6PTOTVBK2YTKB2TFQP2SUBVSNF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PY7LJMSPAGRIKABJPDKQDTXYW3L5RX2T/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4527-1/Advisory