CVE-2019-19073 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-19073?

CVE-2019-19073 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, 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

Memory leaks in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering wait_for_completion_timeout() failures. This affects the htc_config_pipe_credits() function, the htc_setup_complete() function, and the htc_connect_service() function, aka CID-853acf7caf10.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19073?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Linux kernel, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2019-19073?

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-2019-19073 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19073 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-2019-19073, GHSA-rg5g-mjfh-w75q, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19073.