Resource Exhaustion Affecting perf package, versions <0:4.18.0-305.el8
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-PERF-3964873
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 27 Nov 2019
Introduced: 27 Nov 2019
CVE-2019-18811 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 perf to version 0:4.18.0-305.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:1578.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
A memory leak in the sof_set_get_large_ctrl_data() function in sound/soc/sof/ipc.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering sof_get_ctrl_copy_params() failures, aka CID-45c1380358b1.
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18811
- 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/45c1380358b12bf2d1db20a5874e9544f56b34ab
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1578
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4284-1/
- 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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