medium5.5
CVE-2019-19047
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 attack…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | before 5.3.11 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 18.04, 19.10 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.11
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c7ed6d0183d5ea9bc31bcaeeba4070bd62546471
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4225-1/
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.11
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c7ed6d0183d5ea9bc31bcaeeba4070bd62546471
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4225-1/