CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-18810
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
A memory leak in the komeda_wb_connector_add() function in drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_wb_connector.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering drm_writeback_connector_init() failures, aka CID-a0ecd6fdbf5d.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.3 < 5.3.8)
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 19.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.8 Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a0ecd6fdbf5d648123a7315c695fb6850d702835 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4208-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.8 Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a0ecd6fdbf5d648123a7315c695fb6850d702835 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4208-1/ Third Party Advisory