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CVE-2019-19081

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% 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 nfp_flower_spawn_vnic_reprs() function in drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-8ce39eb5a67a.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: before 5.3.4 — fixed in 5.3.4
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0, 8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.3.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00029.html
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.4
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8ce39eb5a67aee25d9f05b40b673c95b23502e3e
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00029.html
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.4
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8ce39eb5a67aee25d9f05b40b673c95b23502e3e
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/

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