CVE-2019-19065

2020-01-0509:56:05

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4.7 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

4.7 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.2%

JSON

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The Intel OPA Gen1 driver mishandles resource cleanup. An attacker able to induce low memory condition on the system 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 hfi1. For instructions relating to how to blacklist a kernel module refer to: <https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278> .