CVE-2019-19053 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Kernel

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption10 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 33.82%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Linux KernelCanonical Ubuntu LinuxNetapp E-series Santricity OS Controller+1 more
Timeline
PublishedNov 18
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A memory leak in the rpmsg_eptdev_write_iter() function in drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy_from_iter_full() failures, aka CID-bbe692e349e2.

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 Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel4.20 — 5.4.12
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.4.13-1+3

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 18.04, 19.10

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-ghm8-6m3x-wv66: A memory leak in the rpmsg_eptdev_write_iter() function in drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2019-19053: A memory leak in the rpmsg_eptdev_write_iter() function in drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char↗2019-11-18
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OSV
CVE-2019-19053: A memory leak in the rpmsg_eptdev_write_iter() function in drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char↗2019-11-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities↗2020-03-25
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities↗2020-03-25
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Red Hat
kernel: A memory leak in the rpmsg_eptdev_write_iter() function in drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c allows attackers to cause a DoS↗2019-09-17
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Debian
CVE-2019-19053: linux - A memory leak in the rpmsg_eptdev_write_iter() function in drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_c...↗2019
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-19053 kernel: A memory leak in the rpmsg_eptdev_write_iter() function in drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c allows attackers to cause a DoS↗2019-11-21
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-19053 kernel: A memory leak in the rpmsg_eptdev_write_iter() function in drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c allows attackers to cause a DoS [fedora-all]↗2019-11-21
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CVE-2019-19053 — Linux Kernel vulnerability | cvebase