CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-18806

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2019-11-07 Modified 2026-10-08 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-11-07
Last modified
2026-10-08
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

A memory leak in the ql_alloc_large_buffers() function in drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering pci_dma_mapping_error() failures, aka CID-1acb8f2a7a9f.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.3.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References