CVE-2019-19075 (NVD)

2019-11-18

A memory leak in the ca8210_probe() function in drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering ca8210_get_platform_data() failures, aka CID-6402939ec86e.

Products Ubuntu_linux, Linux_kernel
Type Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference (CWE-401)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Patches https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6402939ec86eaf226c8b8ae00ed983936b164908
Links • https://usn.ubuntu.com/4208-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4210-1/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4226-1/
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.8