Description

A memory leak in the rsi_send_beacon() function in drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mgmt.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering rsi_prepare_beacon() failures, aka CID-d563131ef23c.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d563131ef23cbc756026f839a82598c8445bc45f

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/4258-1/

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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-2/

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3