vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-19071

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/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 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

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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