CVE-2019-19074 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Kernel
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV5.5OSV4.7
EPSS
0.5%
top 35.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 18
Latest updateMay 24
Description
A memory leak in the ath9k_wmi_cmd() function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-728c1e2a05e4.
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
Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
4GHSA▶
GHSA-q867-j66r-989p: A memory leak in the ath9k_wmi_cmd() function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi↗2022-05-24
OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities↗2020-09-24
OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-gke-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities↗2020-09-23
OSV▶
CVE-2019-19074: A memory leak in the ath9k_wmi_cmd() function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi↗2019-11-18
📋Vendor Advisories
4Debian▶
CVE-2019-19074: linux - A memory leak in the ath9k_wmi_cmd() function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/...↗2019