Bug 1157192 – VUL-1: CVE-2019-19061: kernel-source: A memory leak in the adis_update_scan_mode_burst() function in drivers/iio/imu/adis_buffer.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption)

Bug 1157192 - (CVE-2019-19061) VUL-1: CVE-2019-19061: kernel-source: A memory leak in the adis_update_scan_mode_burst() function in drivers/iio/imu/adis_buffer.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption)

(CVE-2019-19061)
Summary:	VUL-1: CVE-2019-19061: kernel-source: A memory leak in the adis_update_scan_m...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Classification:	Novell Products
Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents
Version:	unspecified
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Priority:	P4 - Low Severity: Major
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URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/247499/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv2:NVD:CVE-2019-19061:7.8:(AV:N/...
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Reported:	2019-11-19 14:34 UTC by Wolfgang Frisch
Modified:	2022-12-23 11:43 UTC (History)
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Description Wolfgang Frisch 2019-11-19 14:34:35 UTC

CVE-2019-19061

A memory leak in the adis_update_scan_mode_burst() function in
drivers/iio/imu/adis_buffer.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers
to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-9c0530e898f3.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2019-19061
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-19061.html
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9c0530e898f384c5d279bfcebd8bb17af1105873
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-19061
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.9

Comment 2 Takashi Iwai 2019-11-19 14:46:05 UTC

The relevant code is found only in SLE15-SP2 and later, and SLE15-SP2 already got the fix via stable tree.

Reassigned back to security team.

Comment 3 Wolfgang Frisch 2019-11-27 15:00:20 UTC

Thanks for looking into this.