CVE-2019-9371 Denial of service in Android

What is CVE-2019-9371?

CVE-2019-9371 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 27 Sep 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

In libvpx, there is a possible resource exhaustion due to improper input validation. This could lead to remote denial of service with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation. Product: AndroidVersions: Android-10Android ID: A-132783254

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-9371?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Android, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2019-9371?

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-2019-9371 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-9371 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 ALPINE-CVE-2019-9371, DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9371, GHSA-9vpr-vrhc-8w49, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9371.