CVE-2019-19047

MEDIUM5.5

A memory leak in the mlx5_fw_fatal_reporter_dump() function in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health

Published Nov 18, 2019

Modified 1 years ago

Details

A memory leak in the mlx5_fw_fatal_reporter_dump() function in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering mlx5_crdump_collect() failures, aka CID-c7ed6d0183d5.

References

WEBhttps://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.11 WEBhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c7ed6d0183d5ea9bc31bcaeeba4070bd62546471 WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4225-1/ADVISORYhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19047

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Exploitability

Attack Vector

LocalAV:L

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

LowPR:L

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

HighA:H

5.5/CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedNov 18, 2019

ModifiedAug 5, 2024