CVE-2019-19071

high

Description

A memory leak in the rsi_send_beacon() function in drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mgmt.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering rsi_prepare_beacon() failures, aka CID-d563131ef23c.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4284-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4258-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PY7LJMSPAGRIKABJPDKQDTXYW3L5RX2T/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3PSDE6PTOTVBK2YTKB2TFQP2SUBVSNF/

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d563131ef23cbc756026f839a82598c8445bc45f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-11-18

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High