UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18810

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18810

    Published: 7 Nov 2019Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-18810
    Aliases:
    USN-4208-1

    Summary:

    Details: A memory leak in the komeda_wb_connector_add() function in drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_wb_connector.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering drm_writeback_connector_init() failures, aka CID-a0ecd6fdbf5d.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-18810, https://git.kernel.org/linus/a0ecd6fdbf5d648123a7315c695fb6850d702835, https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.8, https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a0ecd6fdbf5d648123a7315c695fb6850d702835, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4208-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-18810

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-hwe-edge

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.8.0-28.30~16.04.1
    4.8.0-30.32~16.04.1
    4.8.0-32.34~16.04.1
    4.8.0-34.36~16.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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