CVE-2019-18811

MEDIUM

Description

A memory leak in the sof_set_get_large_ctrl_data() function in sound/soc/sof/ipc.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering sof_get_ctrl_copy_params() failures, aka CID-45c1380358b1.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/45c1380358b12bf2d1db20a5874e9544f56b34ab

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LYIFGYEDQXP5DVJQQUARQRK2PXKBKQGY/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YWWOOJKZ4NQYN4RMFIVJ3ZIXKJJI3MKP/

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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4284-1/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2019-11-07

Updated: 2020-08-24

Type: CWE-401

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 4.9

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

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: MEDIUM