CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-19079
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 qrtr_tun_write_iter() function in net/qrtr/tun.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-a21b7f0cff19.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.18 < 4.19.89)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.3)
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
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 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a21b7f0cff1906a93a0130b74713b15a0b36481d Patch, Tool Signature
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4258-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a21b7f0cff1906a93a0130b74713b15a0b36481d Patch, Tool Signature
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4258-1/ Third Party Advisory