CVE-2019-19054

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel <5.3.11 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

A memory leak in the cx23888_ir_probe() function in drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering kfifo_alloc() failures, aka CID-a7b2df76b42b.

References (8)

[Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a7b2df76b42bdd026e3106cf2ba97db41345a177

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4527-1/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3PSDE6PTOTVBK2YTKB2TFQP2SUBVSNF/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PY7LJMSPAGRIKABJPDKQDTXYW3L5RX2T/

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7

EPSS 0.0004

EPSS Percentile 10.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-401

Status published

Affected Products (38)

linux/linux_kernel < 5.3.11

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

opensuse/leap

netapp/active_iq_unified_manager

netapp/aff_baseboard_management_controller

netapp/cloud_backup

netapp/data_availability_services

netapp/e-series_santricity_os_controller

netapp/e-series_santricity_os_controller

netapp/e-series_santricity_os_controller

... and 23 more

Timeline

Published Nov 18, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026