CVE-2019-19045

2019-11-2111:07:33

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4.4 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

4.9 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.3%

JSON

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The Mellanox Technologies Innova driver mishandles resource cleanup on error. An attacker, able to trigger error could use this flaw to crash the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Mitigation

In order to mitigate this issue it is possible to prevent the affected code from being loaded by blacklisting the kernel module mlx5_core. For instructions relating to how to blacklist a kernel module refer to: <https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278> .