CVE-2019-19070 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-19070?

CVE-2019-19070 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, 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 spi_gpio_probe() function in drivers/spi/spi-gpio.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering devm_add_action_or_reset() failures, aka CID-d3b0ffa1d75d. NOTE: third parties dispute the relevance of this because the system must have already been out of memory before the probe began

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19070?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2019-19070?

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-2019-19070 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19070 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19070, GHSA-f888-6ph8-hvgc, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2019-19070, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2019-19070, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19070.