CVE-2019-18809

medium

Description

A memory leak in the af9005_identify_state() function in drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/af9005.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-2289adbfa559.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4300-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4285-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YWWOOJKZ4NQYN4RMFIVJ3ZIXKJJI3MKP/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYIFGYEDQXP5DVJQQUARQRK2PXKBKQGY/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2289adbfa559050d2a38bcd9caac1c18b800e928

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00029.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-11-07

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H