CVE-2019-19072

medium

Description

A memory leak in the predicate_parse() function in kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-96c5c6e6a5b6.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/96c5c6e6a5b6db592acae039fed54b5c8844cd35

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/4225-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4225-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4226-1/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2019-11-18

Updated: 2020-08-24

Type: CWE-401

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.4

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 0.8

Severity: MEDIUM