CVE-2019-19076 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-19076?

CVE-2019-19076 is a medium-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

A memory leak in the nfp_abm_u32_knode_replace() function in drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/abm/cls.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-78beef629fd9. NOTE: This has been argued as not a valid vulnerability. The upstream commit 78beef629fd9 was reverted

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19076?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2019-19076?

No fix published yet.

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-2019-19076 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19076 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-41940, DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19076, GHSA-wf7v-v54q-4q9x, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19076.