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2019-11-18
A memory leak in the mlx5_fpga_conn_create_cq() function in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fpga/conn.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering mlx5_vector2eqn() failures, aka CID-c8c2a057fdc7.
| Products | Ubuntu_linux, Linux_kernel, Leap |
| Type | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) |
| First patch | - None (likely due to unavailable code) |
| Links |
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c8c2a057fdc7de1cd16f4baa51425b932a42eb39
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/ • https://usn.ubuntu.com/4227-1/ • https://usn.ubuntu.com/4227-2/ • https://usn.ubuntu.com/4226-1/ |