CVE-2019-19078

moderate-risk

Published 2019-11-18

A memory leak in the ath10k_usb_hif_tx_sg() function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/usb.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering usb_submit_urb() failures, aka CID-b8d17e7d93d2.

Do I need to act?

4.0% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — moderate exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.5/10 High

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (5)

Linux Kernel

Ubuntu Linux

Affected Vendors

Linux Canonical

References (20)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00029.html

Patch https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b8d17e7d93d2beb89e4f34c59996376b8b54479...

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4258-1/

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4284-1/

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-1/

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-2/

Third Party Advisory https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html