CVE-2019-19048 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Kernel
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV8.8OSV6.7
EPSS
1.2%
top 21.11%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 18
Latest updateMay 24
Description
A memory leak in the crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy_form_user() failures, aka CID-e0b0cb938864.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages3 packages
Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 18.04, 19.10
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
4GHSA▶
GHSA-895j-4gxf-q954: A memory leak in the crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils↗2022-05-24
OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.0, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke-5.0, linux-kvm, linux-oem-osp1, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.0, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities↗2020-01-07
OSV▶
CVE-2019-19048: A memory leak in the crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils↗2019-11-18
📋Vendor Advisories
4Red Hat
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Debian▶
CVE-2019-19048: linux - A memory leak in the crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vbox...↗2019