1159374 – (CVE-2019-18811) VUL-0: CVE-2019-18811: kernel-source: memory leak in sof_set_get_large_ctrl_data() function in sound/soc/sof/ipc.c

Bug 1159374 (CVE-2019-18811) - VUL-0: CVE-2019-18811: kernel-source: memory leak in sof_set_get_large_ctrl_data() function in sound/soc/sof/ipc.c

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2019-18811: kernel-source: memory leak in sof_set_get_large_ctrl_d...

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	CVE-2019-18811

Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Normal
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URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/246715/
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Reported:	2019-12-17 14:58 UTC by Alexandros Toptsoglou
Modified:	2024-06-25 14:12 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Alexandros Toptsoglou 2019-12-17 14:58:37 UTC

CVE-2019-18811

A memory leak in the sof_set_get_large_ctrl_data() function in sound/soc/sof/ipc.c in the Linux kernel allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering sof_get_ctrl_copy_params() failures.

Reference:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/45c1380358b12bf2d1db20a5874e9544f56b34ab

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1777455
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2019-18811
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-18811.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18811
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/45c1380358b12bf2d1db20a5874e9544f56b34ab
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/

Comment 1 Alexandros Toptsoglou 2019-12-17 14:59:42 UTC

All codestreams are not affected. SLE15-SP2 is already in a fixed version and contains the fix.