CVE-2019-19062

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    CVE-2019-19062

    Published: 18 Nov 2019Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A memory leak in the crypto_report() function in crypto/crypto_user_base.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering crypto_report_alg() failures, aka CID-ffdde5932042.

    References: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PY7LJMSPAGRIKABJPDKQDTXYW3L5RX2T/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3PSDE6PTOTVBK2YTKB2TFQP2SUBVSNF/, https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/10, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4254-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4254-2/, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00013.html, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4258-1/, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00029.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-2/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4284-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-1/, http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155890/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ffdde5932042600c6807d46c1550b28b0db6a3bc

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Local
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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