CVE-2019-19047

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel <5.3.11 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

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 (4)

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 22.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-401
Status published

Affected Products (3)

linux/linux_kernel < 5.3.11
canonical/ubuntu_linux
canonical/ubuntu_linux

Timeline

Published Nov 18, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026