CVE-2019-19077

A memory leak flaw was found in the Broadcom NetXtreme HCA driver in the Linux kernel, in the way it handled resource cleanup on the copy to userspace error. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger this error and 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 bnxt_re. For instructions relating to how to blacklist a kernel module refer to: <https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278&gt; .