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CVE-2019-19048

Published: Nov 18, 2019

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

A memory leak in the crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy_form_user() failures, aka CID-e0b0cb938864.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.9

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e0b0cb9388642c104838fac100a4af32745621e2

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vendor-advisory

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https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/

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vendor-advisory

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