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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2019-19065
HistoryNov 18, 2019 - 6:15 a.m.

Null pointer dereference

2019-11-1806:15:00
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6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

14.2%

DISPUTED A memory leak in the sdma_init() function in drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/sdma.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering rhashtable_init() failures, aka CID-34b3be18a04e. NOTE: This has been disputed as not a vulnerability because “rhashtable_init() can only fail if it is passed invalid values in the second parameter’s struct, but when invoked from sdma_init() that is a pointer to a static const struct, so an attacker could only trigger failure if they could corrupt kernel memory (in which case a small memory leak is not a significant problem).”

6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

14.2%