CVE-2019-19076

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 3
Modified
Published: 18 Nov 2019, 05:24
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 02:09

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
29/100
CVSS Score
7.1 HIGH
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
2.33% LOW
2% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

18 Nov 2019, 05:24
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 02:09
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

A memory leak in the nfp_abm_u32_knode_replace() function in drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/abm/cls.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-78beef629fd9. NOTE: This has been argued as not a valid vulnerability. The upstream commit 78beef629fd9 was reverted

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.1AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 2.33%• Percentile: 85%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-401•Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

    The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    18.04 | 19.04

  • linux•linux_kernel

    < 5.3.6

  • redhat•enterprise_linux

    8.0

References (6)