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Red Hat: CVE-2019-19058: CVE-2019-19058 kernel: A memory leak in the alloc_sgtable() function in drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/dbg.c allows for a DoS (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2019-19058: CVE-2019-19058 kernel: A memory leak in the alloc_sgtable() function in drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/dbg.c allows for a DoS (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/18/2019
Created
05/05/2020
Added
05/04/2020
Modified
03/13/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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