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.

References

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.11

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c7ed6d0183d5ea9bc31bcaeeba4070bd62546471

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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4225-1/

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3