vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-19058

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 18, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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