CVE-2019-19048
First published: Mon Nov 18 2019(Updated: )
A memory leak in the crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy_form_user() failures, aka CID-e0b0cb938864.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux kernel | >=4.16<4.19.82 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | >=4.20<5.3.9 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =18.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =19.10 | |
| debian/linux | 5.10.223-1 5.10.226-1 6.1.115-1 6.1.119-1 6.11.10-1 6.12.5-1 |
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Reference Links
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.9
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e0b0cb9388642c104838fac100a4af32745621e2
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4208-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4226-1/
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2019-19048
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-19048
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19048
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-19048
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-19048
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/e0b0cb9388642c104838fac100a4af32745621e2
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