1157720 – (CVE-2019-19048) VUL-1: CVE-2019-19048: kernel-source: kernel: memory leak in crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c

Bug 1157720 (CVE-2019-19048) - VUL-1: CVE-2019-19048: kernel-source: kernel: memory leak in crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c

Summary: VUL-1: CVE-2019-19048: kernel-source: kernel: memory leak in crypto_reportsta...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	CVE-2019-19048

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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QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/247486/
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Reported:	2019-11-25 16:19 UTC by Wolfgang Frisch
Modified:	2024-06-25 14:08 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Wolfgang Frisch 2019-11-25 16:19:47 UTC

CVE-2019-19048

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel where, a memory leak in the crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy_form_user() failures.

Reference:
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.9
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e0b0cb9388642c104838fac100a4af32745621e2

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1774994
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2019-19048
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-19048.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-19048
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e0b0cb9388642c104838fac100a4af32745621e2
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.9

Comment 1 Wolfgang Frisch 2019-11-25 16:20:43 UTC

No SUSE product is affected by this issue.
The upcoming kernel SLE15-SP2 already contains a fix.

Closing.