CVE-2019-18807 Denial of service in n/a

High 7.5 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a denial of service via memory consumption in the sja1105 DSA driver by triggering specific upload failures.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2019-18807?

CVE-2019-18807 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 Nov 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Two memory leaks in the sja1105_static_config_upload() function in drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_spi.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.5 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering static_config_buf_prepare_for_upload() or sja1105_inhibit_tx() failures, aka CID-68501df92d11.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-18807?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2019-18807?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-18807 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-18807 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-18807, GHSA-mw23-8m9f-c29g, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18807.

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