UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18811

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18811

    Published: 7 Nov 2019Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-18811
    Aliases:
    USN-4284-1

    Summary:

    Details: A memory leak in the sof_set_get_large_ctrl_data() function in sound/soc/sof/ipc.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering sof_get_ctrl_copy_params() failures, aka CID-45c1380358b1.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-18811, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/45c1380358b12bf2d1db20a5874e9544f56b34ab, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4284-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-18811

    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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