Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-cross-headers package, versions <0:4.18.0-240.el8
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EPSS
0.4% (75th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-3816983
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 27 Nov 2019
Introduced: 27 Nov 2019
CVE-2019-18809 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-cross-headers to version 0:4.18.0-240.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:4431.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
A memory leak in the af9005_identify_state() function in drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/af9005.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-2289adbfa559.
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18809
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYIFGYEDQXP5DVJQQUARQRK2PXKBKQGY/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YWWOOJKZ4NQYN4RMFIVJ3ZIXKJJI3MKP/
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2289adbfa559050d2a38bcd9caac1c18b800e928
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4431
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00029.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4285-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4300-1/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYIFGYEDQXP5DVJQQUARQRK2PXKBKQGY/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YWWOOJKZ4NQYN4RMFIVJ3ZIXKJJI3MKP/
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