CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-19075
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 ca8210_probe() function in drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering ca8210_get_platform_data() failures, aka CID-6402939ec86e.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.12 < 4.14.151)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.81)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.3.8)
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 19.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 19.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00029.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.8 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6402939ec86eaf226c8b8ae00ed983936b164908 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/4210-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4226-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00029.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.8 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6402939ec86eaf226c8b8ae00ed983936b164908 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/4210-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4226-1/ Third Party Advisory