A memory leak in the sof_dfsentry_write() function in sound/soc/sof/debug.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-c0a333d842ef.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-003671 advisory.

    A memory leak in the sof_dfsentry_write() function in sound/soc/sof/debug.c in the Linux kernel through     5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-c0a333d842ef.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-003803 advisory.

    A memory leak in the sof_dfsentry_write() function in sound/soc/sof/debug.c in the Linux kernel through     5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-c0a333d842ef.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A memory leak in the sof_dfsentry_write() function in sound/soc/sof/debug.c in the Linux kernel through     5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-c0a333d842ef.
    (CVE-2019-18812)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The 5.3.14 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
288337	Unity Linux 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-003671)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	high
288071	Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-003803)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	high
246539	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-18812	Nessus	Misc.	high
131787	Fedora 30 : kernel (2019-124a241044)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
131742	Fedora 31 : kernel (2019-b86a7bdba0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2019-18812

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Tenable Plugins

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