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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-19068: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4431)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-19068: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4431)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/18/2019
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

A memory leak in the rtl8xxxu_submit_int_urb() function in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering usb_submit_urb() failures, aka CID-a2cdd07488e6.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel

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