CVE-2019-19059

A flaw was found in the way the Intel Wireless driver in the Linux kernel handled resource cleanup during Gen 3 device initialization. This flaw allows an attacker with the ability to restrict access to DMA coherent memory on device initialization, to crash the system.

Mitigation

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