Memory Leak Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.1.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004445
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-20095  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.1.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Leak mwifiex_tm_cmd in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c in the Linux kernel before 5.1.6 has some error-handling cases that did not free allocated hostcmd memory, aka CID-003b686ace82. This will cause a memory leak and denial of service.

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