CVE-2019-19044 Denial of service in n/a

High 7.5 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a denial of service via memory consumption in the Linux kernel's v3d driver by triggering specific allocation 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-2019-19044?

CVE-2019-19044 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 18 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 v3d_submit_cl_ioctl() function in drivers/gpu/drm/v3d/v3d_gem.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.11 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering kcalloc() or v3d_job_init() failures, aka CID-29cd13cfd762.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19044?

It affects 15 products.

Products include Broadcom Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel, Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp Aff Baseboard Management Controller, Netapp Cloud Backup and 9 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-19044?

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-2019-19044 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19044 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19044, GHSA-p29h-v652-9mxm, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19044.

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