CVE-2019-19048

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    CVE-2019-19048

    Published: 18 Nov 2019Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A memory leak in the crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy_form_user() failures, aka CID-e0b0cb938864.

    References: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.9, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4208-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4226-1/, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e0b0cb9388642c104838fac100a4af32745621e2

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    Availability
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