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SUSE: CVE-2019-19071: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2019-19071: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/18/2019
Created
02/10/2022
Added
02/04/2022
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

A memory leak in the rsi_send_beacon() function in drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mgmt.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering rsi_prepare_beacon() failures, aka CID-d563131ef23c.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default

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