Medium severity · published Nov 18, 2019
CVE-2019-19054
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…
4.7
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 39% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
through 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
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
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
30; 31 · 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-2019-19054
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19054
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html
Patch
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a7b2df76b42bdd026e3106cf2ba97db41345a177
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3PSDE6PTOTVBK2YTKB2TFQP2SUBVSNF/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PY7LJMSPAGRIKABJPDKQDTXYW3L5RX2T/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/
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