CVE-2019-19081
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.9 · CWE-401
5.9CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
A memory leak in the nfp_flower_spawn_vnic_reprs() function in drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-8ce39eb5a67a.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
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/8ce39eb5a67aee25d9f05b40b673c95b23502e3e ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8ce39eb5a67aee25d9f05b40b673c95b23502e3ePatch
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.4Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00029.htmlAdvisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/Advisory