CVE-2019-19077 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a denial of service via memory consumption in the Linux kernel InfiniBand driver by triggering copy failures.

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

What is CVE-2019-19077?

CVE-2019-19077 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

A memory leak in the bnxt_re_create_srq() function in drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy to udata failures, aka CID-4a9d46a9fe14.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19077?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2019-19077?

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-2019-19077 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19077 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19077, GHSA-52jh-9w82-58c3, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19077.

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