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CVE-2019-18811

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-11-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

A memory leak in the sof_set_get_large_ctrl_data() function in sound/soc/sof/ipc.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering sof_get_ctrl_copy_params() failures, aka CID-45c1380358b1.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31
• Linux kernel: through 5.3.9
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0

References

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/45c1380358b12bf2d1db20a5874e9544f56b34ab
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYIFGYEDQXP5DVJQQUARQRK2PXKBKQGY/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YWWOOJKZ4NQYN4RMFIVJ3ZIXKJJI3MKP/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4284-1/
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/45c1380358b12bf2d1db20a5874e9544f56b34ab
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LYIFGYEDQXP5DVJQQUARQRK2PXKBKQGY/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YWWOOJKZ4NQYN4RMFIVJ3ZIXKJJI3MKP/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4284-1/

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