CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-19073

4.0 MEDIUM 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])
4.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

Memory leaks in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering wait_for_completion_timeout() failures. This affects the htc_config_pipe_credits() function, the htc_setup_complete() function, and the htc_connect_service() function, aka CID-853acf7caf10.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 5.3.11) • fedoraproject fedora 30 • fedoraproject fedora 31 • opensuse leap 15.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References