Bug 1774963 (CVE-2019-19068)

Summary:	CVE-2019-19068 kernel: A memory leak in the rtl8xxxu_submit_int_urb() function in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c allows for a DoS
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, airlied, bdettelb, bhu, blc, brdeoliv, bskeggs, dhoward, dvlasenk, esammons, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jeremy, jforbes, jglisse, jlelli, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, jross, jshortt, jstancek, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, linville, masami256, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mjg59, mlangsdo, nmurray, qzhao, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, steved, williams, yozone
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A memory leak in the realtek driver allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through memory consumption. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2020-11-04 02:23:22 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1774965, 1829887, 1829888, 1829889
Bug Blocks:	1774966

Description Marian Rehak 2019-11-21 10:44:55 UTC

A memory leak in the rtl8xxxu_submit_int_urb() function in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering usb_submit_urb() failures.

Upstream Issue:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2cdd07488e666aa93a49a3fc9c9b1299e27ef3c

Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2019-11-21 10:45:30 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1774965]

Comment 4 Petr Matousek 2020-04-30 14:20:27 UTC

Mitigation:

In order to mitigate this issue it is possible to prevent the affected code from being loaded by blacklisting the kernel module rtl8xxxu. For instructions relating to how to blacklist a kernel module refer to: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 .

Comment 5 Petr Matousek 2020-04-30 14:25:09 UTC

Statement:

This issue is rated as having Low impact because of the preconditions needed to trigger the error/resource cleanup code path (physical access and/or system-wide out-of-memory condition).

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 00:49:37 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:4431 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4431

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 02:21:21 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:4609 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4609

Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-11-04 02:23:22 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-19068