CVE Catalog

CVE-2019-19080

MediumCVSS 5.9
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
2.81%

86th percentile - higher than 86% of all known CVEs

Summary

Four memory leaks in the nfp_flower_spawn_phy_reprs() function in drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.4 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-8572cea1461a.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can repeatedly trigger the vulnerable function, causing gradual memory exhaustion and eventually a system hang or crash.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to version 5.3.4 or later.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Four memory leaks in the nfp_flower_spawn_phy_reprs() function in drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.4 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-8572cea1461a.

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