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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2019-18811) ELSA-2021-1578: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2019-18811) ELSA-2021-1578: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/07/2019
Created
05/29/2021
Added
05/26/2021
Modified
05/26/2021

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel

References

  • ELSA-2021-1578
  • USN-4284-1
  • CVE-2019-18811

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