High severity · published Nov 18, 2019
CVE-2019-19052
A memory leak in the gs_can_open() function in drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by…
7.5
CVSS
5.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A memory leak in the gs_can_open() function in drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering usb_submit_urb() failures, aka CID-fb5be6a7b486.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.2% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
3.16 before 3.16.79; 3.17 before 4.4.201; 4.5 before 4.9.201; 4.10 before 4.14.154; 4.15 before 4.19.84; 4.20 before 5.3.11 · source: NVD
AI
Active IQ Unified Manager · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
AB
Aff Baseboard Management Controller · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
BF
Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware · Broadcom
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
CB
Cloud Backup · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
DA
Data Availability Services · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
ES
E-series Santricity OS Controller · Netapp
11.0; 11.0.0; 11.20; 11.25; 11.30; 11.30.5r3; +12 more · source: NVD
FB
Fas/aff Baseboard Management Controller · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HB
Hci Baseboard Management Controller · Netapp
h610s · source: NVD
HC
Hci Compute Node Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19052
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19052
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00029.html
Release Notes
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.11
Patch
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fb5be6a7b4863ecc44963bb80ca614584b6c7817
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00013.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
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