CVE-2019-19053

high

Description

A memory leak in the rpmsg_eptdev_write_iter() function in drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy_from_iter_full() failures, aka CID-bbe692e349e2.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bbe692e349e2a1edf3fe0a29a0e05899c9c94d51

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

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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4301-1/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2019-11-18

Updated: 2020-08-24

Type: CWE-401

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: HIGH

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH