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CVE-2019-19059

• 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 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

Multiple memory leaks in the iwl_pcie_ctxt_info_gen3_init() function in drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/ctxt-info-gen3.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering iwl_pcie_init_fw_sec() or dma_alloc_coherent() failures, aka CID-0f4f199443fa.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04, 19.10
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31
• Linux kernel: through 5.3.11

References

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0f4f199443faca715523b0659aa536251d8b978f
• 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/4300-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4301-1/
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0f4f199443faca715523b0659aa536251d8b978f
• 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/4300-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4301-1/

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