Vulnerability Report

CVE-2019-19055

Title: Linux Linux Kernel Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2019-19055.

CWE Category CWE-401
Published Date Nov 18, 2019
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.41%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2019-19055: A memory leak in the nl80211_get_ftm_responder_stats() function in net/wireless/nl80211.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering nl80211hdr_put() failures, aka CID-1399c59fa929. NOTE: third parties dispute the relevance of this because it occurs on a code path where a successful allocation has already occurred

Impacted Vendors

C
canonical 1
R
redhat 1
F
fedoraproject 1
L
linux 1
U
ubuntu 2

Reference Links

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157319 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1399c59fa92984836db90538cf92397fe7caaa57 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://usn.ubuntu.com/4225-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4225-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4226-1/ https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157319 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1399c59fa92984836db90538cf92397fe7caaa57 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://usn.ubuntu.com/4225-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4225-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4226-1/
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.5
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.9
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2019-19055 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.