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CVE-2019-19054

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 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: 2019-11-18 · updated 2026-10-08
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

A memory leak in the cx23888_ir_probe() function in drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering kfifo_alloc() failures, aka CID-a7b2df76b42b.

Affected products

• Broadcom Brocade Fabric Operating System Firmware: all versions
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31
• Linux kernel: through 5.3.11
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
• NetApp Aff Baseboard Management Controller: all versions
• NetApp Cloud Backup: all versions
• NetApp Data Availability Services: all versions
• E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x: 11.0, 11.0.0, 11.20, 11.25, 11.30, 11.30.5r3 (+12)
• NetApp Fas/Aff Baseboard Management Controller: all versions
• NetApp Hci Baseboard Management Controller: h610s
• NetApp Hci Compute Node Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire, Enterprise Sds & Hci Storage Node: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire & Hci Management Node: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire Baseboard Management Controller Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage: all versions
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a7b2df76b42bdd026e3106cf2ba97db41345a177
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3PSDE6PTOTVBK2YTKB2TFQP2SUBVSNF/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PY7LJMSPAGRIKABJPDKQDTXYW3L5RX2T/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4527-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a7b2df76b42bdd026e3106cf2ba97db41345a177
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3PSDE6PTOTVBK2YTKB2TFQP2SUBVSNF/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PY7LJMSPAGRIKABJPDKQDTXYW3L5RX2T/

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