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CVE-2019-19045

A memory leak in the mlx5_fpga_conn_create_cq() function in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fpga/conn.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.11 allows attack…

Impact

A memory leak in the mlx5_fpga_conn_create_cq() function in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fpga/conn.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering mlx5_vector2eqn() failures, aka CID-c8c2a057fdc7.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
before 5.3.11
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10
OpensuseLeap
Version 15.1

Weakness classification

References