CVE-2019-19058

medium

Description

A memory leak in the alloc_sgtable() function in drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/dbg.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering alloc_page() failures, aka CID-b4b814fec1a5.

References

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

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b4b814fec1a5a849383f7b3886b654a13abbda7d

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/O3PSDE6PTOTVBK2YTKB2TFQP2SUBVSNF/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PY7LJMSPAGRIKABJPDKQDTXYW3L5RX2T/

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

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

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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4302-1/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2019-11-18

Updated: 2020-08-24

Type: CWE-401

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

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

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 3.4

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1

Severity: MEDIUM