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Oracle Linux: CVE-2019-19058: ELSA-2020-4060: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2019-19058: ELSA-2020-4060: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/21/2019
Created
10/09/2020
Added
10/07/2020
Modified
07/22/2024

Description

A memory leak in the alloc_sgtable() function in drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/dbg.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering alloc_page() failures, aka CID-b4b814fec1a5. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The Intel Wireless WiFi MVM Firmware driver mishandles resource cleanup during device coredump. An attacker able to trigger the device coredump and system-wide out of memory conditions at the same time could use this flaw to crash the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel

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