CVE-2019-19050 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-19050?

CVE-2019-19050 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System, published on 18 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 crypto_reportstat() function in crypto/crypto_user_stat.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering crypto_reportstat_alg() failures, aka CID-c03b04dcdba1.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19050?

It affects 17 products.

Products include Broadcom Fabric Operating System, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Linux kernel, Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp Aff A400 Firmware and 11 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-19050?

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-2019-19050 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19050 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Broadcom Fabric Operating System

• CVE-2025-1976 Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS Code Injection Exploited High 8.6
• CVE-2021-22555 Linux Kernel Heap Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.3
• CVE-2022-33186 Command injection in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-27797 Hardcoded credentials in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-15371 Code injection in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8

All Broadcom Fabric Operating System vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19050, GHSA-r72c-cvxr-7838, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19050.