CVE-2019-19047 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Kernel
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.1%
top 77.11%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 18
Latest updateMay 24
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages3 packages
Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 18.04, 19.10
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-47v6-rvvx-7qrp: A memory leak in the mlx5_fw_fatal_reporter_dump() function in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health↗2022-05-24
OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.3, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.3, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities↗2020-01-07
OSV▶
CVE-2019-19047: A memory leak in the mlx5_fw_fatal_reporter_dump() function in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health↗2019-11-18