CVE-2019-19071

HIGH

Linux Kernel <5.3.11 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

A memory leak in the rsi_send_beacon() function in drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mgmt.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering rsi_prepare_beacon() failures, aka CID-d563131ef23c.

References (8)

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d563131ef23cbc756026f839a82598c8445bc45f

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

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

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4258-1/

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4284-1/

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-1/

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-2/

[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 7.5

EPSS 0.0074

EPSS Percentile 72.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-401

Status published

Affected Products (5)

linux/linux_kernel < 4.14.159

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

Timeline

Published Nov 18, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026