Bug 1774994 (CVE-2019-19048)

Summary:	CVE-2019-19048 kernel: dos in crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
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, jschorr, jshortt, jstancek, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, linville, masami256, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mjg59, mlangsdo, nmurray, plougher, qzhao, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, steved, williams, yozone
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1774995
Bug Blocks:	1775031

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-11-21 11:12:33 UTC

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel where, a memory leak in the crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy_form_user() failures.

Reference:
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.9
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e0b0cb9388642c104838fac100a4af32745621e2

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-11-21 11:13:09 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1774995]

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2019-11-21 16:36:10 UTC

This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.3.9 stable update.