CVE-2019-19073 Information

Description

Memory leaks in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering wait_for_completion_timeout() failures. This affects the htc_config_pipe_credits() function the htc_setup_complete() function and the htc_connect_service() function aka CID-853acf7caf10.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00029.html https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/853acf7caf10b828102d92d05b5c101666a6142b https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3PSDE6PTOTVBK2YTKB2TFQP2SUBVSNF/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PY7LJMSPAGRIKABJPDKQDTXYW3L5RX2T/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4527-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

LOW

Base Severity

4.0