CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-19048
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-18
- 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 crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy_form_user() failures, aka CID-e0b0cb938864.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.16 < 4.19.82)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.3.9)
• 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-5.3.9 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e0b0cb9388642c104838fac100a4af32745621e2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4208-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4226-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.9 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e0b0cb9388642c104838fac100a4af32745621e2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4208-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4226-1/ Third Party Advisory