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CVE-2019-19054

CVE-2019-19054MEDIUM

n/a n/a — A memory leak in the cx23888_ir_probe() function in drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows atta…

  AV  AC  PR  UI  S  C  I  A   CVSS    EPSS   %ile   KEV
   L   H   L   N  U  N  N  H    4.7   .0045   37.4     —

AFFECTED
  Product  Versions  Fixed
  n/a      n/a –     —

TIMELINE
  Nov 18  Reserved by mitre
  Nov 18  Published (CNA: mitre)
  Oct 8   ENRICHED — CVE-2019-19054. Received CVSS 4.7 and CPE data from NVD.

CWE-401 · CNA: mitre · CVSS v3.1 · 8 references · NVD status: Modified

Description

A memory leak in the cx23888_ir_probe() function in drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering kfifo_alloc() failures, aka CID-a7b2df76b42b.

Lifecycle

Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
Date	Event	Detail
November 18, 2019	Reserved	Reserved by mitre
November 18, 2019	Published	Published (CNA: mitre)
October 8, 2026	ENRICHED	ENRICHED — CVE-2019-19054. Received CVSS 4.7 and CPE data from NVD.

Affected

Affected products and packages — 1 row
Vendor	Product / Package	Ecosystem	Version introduced	Fixed
n/a	n/a	—	n/a	—

Weaknesses

CWE-401

References (8)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html [Third Party Advisory]
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a7b2df76b42bdd026e3106cf2ba97db41345a177 [Patch, Third Party Advisory]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3PSDE6PTOTVBK2YTKB2TFQP2SUBVSNF/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PY7LJMSPAGRIKABJPDKQDTXYW3L5RX2T/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/ [Third Party Advisory]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/ [Third Party Advisory]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/ [Third Party Advisory]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4527-1/ [Third Party Advisory]

Authoritative record: CVE-2019-19054 at cve.org

Weaknesses: CWE-401

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