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CVE-2019-19069
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 3.5% 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
A memory leak in the fastrpc_dma_buf_attach() function in drivers/misc/fastrpc.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering dma_get_sgtable() failures, aka CID-fc739a058d99.
Affected products
- Brocade Fabric OS: all versions
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04, 19.10
- Linux kernel: from 5.1 before 5.3.9; 5.4-rc1, 5.4-rc2, 5.4-rc3 — fixed in 5.3.9
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
- NetApp Aff A400 Firmware: all versions
- NetApp Aff A700S Firmware: all versions
- NetApp Data Availability Services: all versions
- E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x: from 11.0.0 through 11.60.3
- NetApp Fas8300 Firmware: all versions
- NetApp Fas8700 Firmware: all versions
- NetApp H610S Firmware: all versions
- NetApp Hci Compute Node: all versions
- NetApp Hci Management Node: all versions
- NetApp Hci Storage Node: all versions
- NetApp Solidfire: all versions
- NetApp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage: all versions
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.3.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.9
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fc739a058d99c9297ef6bfd923b809d85855b9a9
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4208-1/
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.9
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fc739a058d99c9297ef6bfd923b809d85855b9a9
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4208-1/
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