CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-19071

7.5 HIGH Published 2019-11-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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 rsi_send_beacon() function in drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mgmt.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering rsi_prepare_beacon() failures, aka CID-d563131ef23c.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.14 < 4.14.159) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.89) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.3.16) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.0 < 5.4.3) • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • 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