Memory Leak Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <4.12.14-150.52.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-KERNELDOCS-2710862
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed18 Jun 2020

Introduced: 18 Jun 2020

CVE-2019-19054  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 kernel-docs to version 4.12.14-150.52.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs package and not the kernel-docs package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 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.

CVSS Scores

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