CVE-2019-20095

moderate-risk
Published 2019-12-30

mwifiex_tm_cmd in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c in the Linux kernel before 5.1.6 has some error-handling cases that did not free allocated hostcmd memory, aka CID-003b686ace82. This will cause a memory leak and denial of service.

Do I need to act?

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0.13% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.5/10 Medium
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (14)

8300 Firmware
8700 Firmware
A400 Firmware

Affected Vendors

Linux Netapp Opensuse

References (8)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html
Release Notes https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.1.6
Release Notes https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=00...
Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200204-0002/
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html
Release Notes https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.1.6
Release Notes https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=00...
Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200204-0002/
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 18/34 · Moderate