CVE-2019-19075

high

Description

A memory leak in the ca8210_probe() function in drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering ca8210_get_platform_data() failures, aka CID-6402939ec86e.

References

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.8

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6402939ec86eaf226c8b8ae00ed983936b164908

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4208-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4210-1/

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

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

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2019-11-18

Updated: 2023-01-17

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