Security Advisory

CVE-2019-19049

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-11-18 05:23:46
Last updated 2024-08-05 02:09:38
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

A memory leak in the unittest_data_add() function in drivers/of/unittest.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.10 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering of_fdt_unflatten_tree() failures, aka CID-e13de8fe0d6a. NOTE: third parties dispute the relevance of this because unittest.c can only be reached during boot