CVE-2019-18812 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-18812?

CVE-2019-18812 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

A memory leak in the sof_dfsentry_write() function in sound/soc/sof/debug.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-c0a333d842ef.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-18812?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2019-18812?

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-2019-18812 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-18812 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

• CVE-2026-53266 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-18812, GHSA-gx75-jwqc-9m3h, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18812.