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CVE-2019-19072

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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

A memory leak in the predicate_parse() function in kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-96c5c6e6a5b6.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04, 19.04, 19.10
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31
• Linux kernel: through 5.3.11
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0

References

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/96c5c6e6a5b6db592acae039fed54b5c8844cd35
• 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/4225-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4225-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4226-1/
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/96c5c6e6a5b6db592acae039fed54b5c8844cd35
• 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/4225-1/

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