CVE-2019-19047

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedNov 18, 2019
First seenNov 18, 2019

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel5.3.11 or later
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Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv < 5.3.115.3.11
canonical ubuntu_linux18.04, 19.10—

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