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Debian: CVE-2019-19054: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-19054: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/18/2019
Created
09/28/2020
Added
09/28/2020
Modified
09/30/2020

Description

A memory leak in the cx23888_ir_probe() function in drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering kfifo_alloc() failures, aka CID-a7b2df76b42b.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

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