CVE-2019-19077

medium

Description

A memory leak in the bnxt_re_create_srq() function in drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy to udata failures, aka CID-4a9d46a9fe14.

References

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

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a9d46a9fe14401f21df69cea97c62396d5fb053

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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4258-1/

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

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: 5.5

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: MEDIUM