Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-tools package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.07% (34th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELTOOLS-1334462
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 25 Sep 2019
Introduced: 25 Sep 2019
CVE-2019-19054 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-tools.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools package and not the kernel-tools package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
A memory leak in the cx23888_ir_probe() function in drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering kfifo_alloc() failures, aka CID-a7b2df76b42b.
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-19054
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3PSDE6PTOTVBK2YTKB2TFQP2SUBVSNF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PY7LJMSPAGRIKABJPDKQDTXYW3L5RX2T/
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a7b2df76b42bdd026e3106cf2ba97db41345a177
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4527-1/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3PSDE6PTOTVBK2YTKB2TFQP2SUBVSNF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PY7LJMSPAGRIKABJPDKQDTXYW3L5RX2T/
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