SB2019112712 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Linux kernel



SB2019112712 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

Published: November 27, 2019

Security Bulletin ID SB2019112712
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 19
Exploitation vector Adjecent network
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 58% Low 42%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 19 vulnerabilities.


1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19066)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a local attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "bfad_im_get_stats()" function in "drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_attr.c" file. A local attacker can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption) by triggering "bfa_port_get_stats()" failures.


2) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19043)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "i40e_setup_macvlans()" function in "drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c" file. A remote attacker on the local network can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption) by triggering "i40e_setup_channel()" failures.


3) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19062)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a local attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "crypto_report()" function in "crypto/crypto_user_base.c" file. A local attacker can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption) by triggering "crypto_report_alg()" failures.


4) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19056)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "mwifiex_pcie_alloc_cmdrsp_buf()" function in "drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c" file. A remote attacker on the local network can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption) by triggering "mwifiex_map_pci_memory()" failures.


5) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19054)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a local attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "cx23888_ir_probe()" function in "drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c" file. A local attacker can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption) by triggering "kfifo_alloc()" failures.


6) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19050)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a local attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "crypto_reportstat()" function in "crypto/crypto_user_stat.c" file. A local attacker can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption) by triggering "crypto_reportstat_alg()" failures.


7) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19057)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "mwifiex_pcie_init_evt_ring()" function in "drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c"  file. A remote attacker on the local network can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption) by triggering "mwifiex_map_pci_memory()" failures.


8) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19058)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "alloc_sgtable()" function in "drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/dbg.c" file. A remote attacker on the local network can cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering "alloc_page()" failures.


9) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19059)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "iwl_pcie_ctxt_info_gen3_init()" function in "drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/ctxt-info-gen3.c" file. A remote attacker on the local network can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption) by triggering "iwl_pcie_init_fw_sec() or dma_alloc_coherent()" failures.


10) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19053)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a local attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "rpmsg_eptdev_write_iter()" function in "drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c" file. A local attacker can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption) by triggering "copy_from_iter_full()" failures.


11) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19077)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a local attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "bnxt_re_create_srq()" function in "drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c" file. A local attacker can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption) by triggering "ib_copy_to_udata()" failures.


12) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19082)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a local attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the *create_resource_pool() functions in "drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc" file. A local attacker can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption).

This vulnerability affects the following functions:

  • dce120_create_resource_pool() function in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dce120/dce120_resource.c
  • dce110_create_resource_pool() function in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dce110/dce110_resource.c
  • dce100_create_resource_pool() function in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dce100/dce100_resource.c
  • dcn10_create_resource_pool() function in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dcn10/dcn10_resource.c
  • dce112_create_resource_pool() function in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dce112/dce112_resource.c

13) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19074)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "ath9k_wmi_cmd()" function in "drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c" file. A remote attacker on the local network can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption).


14) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19071)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "rsi_send_beacon()" function in "drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mgmt.c" file. A remote attacker on the local network can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption) by triggering "rsi_prepare_beacon()" failures.


15) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19068)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "rtl8xxxu_submit_int_urb()" function in "drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c" file. A remote attacker on the local network can cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering "usb_submit_urb()" failures.


16) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19063)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "rtl_usb_probe()" function in "drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c" file. A remote attacker on the local network can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption).

17) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19073)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "htc_config_pipe_credits()", "htc_setup_complete()" and "htc_connect_service()" functions in "drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c" file. A remote attacker on the local network can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption) by triggering "wait_for_completion_timeout()" failures.

18) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19072)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a local attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "predicate_parse()" function in "kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c" file. A local attacker can cause a denial of service (memory consumption).


19) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19078)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the "ath10k_usb_hif_tx_sg()" function in "drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/usb.c" file. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service condition (memory consumption) by triggering "usb_submit_urb()" failures.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References