Memory Leak Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <4.12.14-197.29.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELDOCS-3255650
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed17 Dec 2019

Introduced: 17 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-19073  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 kernel-docs to version 4.12.14-197.29.2 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:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

Memory leaks in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering wait_for_completion_timeout() failures. This affects the htc_config_pipe_credits() function, the htc_setup_complete() function, and the htc_connect_service() function, aka CID-853acf7caf10.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1