CVE Catalog

CVE-2019-19054

MediumCVSS 4.7
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.45%

37th percentile - higher than 37% of all known CVEs

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can cause memory exhaustion, leading to a denial of service for the system.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version newer than 5.3.11 that includes the fix for this issue.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS