CVE-2019-19063 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.6 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a denial of service via memory leaks in the Linux kernel's Realtek USB wireless driver.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2019-19063?

CVE-2019-19063 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 18 Nov 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Two memory leaks in the rtl_usb_probe() function in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-3f9361695113.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19063?

It affects 18 products.

Products include Broadcom Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Linux kernel, Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp Aff Baseboard Management Controller and 12 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-19063?

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-2019-19063 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19063 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19063, GHSA-r9m9-7j24-222x, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19063.

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