Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting kernel-devel package, versions <0:3.10.0-1160.el7
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELDEVEL-7975542
- published 14 Sep 2024
- disclosed 30 Dec 2019
Introduced: 30 Dec 2019
CVE-2019-20095 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:7 kernel-devel to version 0:3.10.0-1160.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:4060.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-devel package and not the kernel-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200204-0002/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-20095
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.1.6
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=003b686ace820ce2d635a83f10f2d7f9c147dabc
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4060
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html