Bug 1775063 (CVE-2019-19054)

Summary:	CVE-2019-19054 kernel: A memory leak in the cx23888_ir_probe() function in drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c allows attackers to cause a DoS
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	msiddiqu
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, jlelli, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, jross, jshortt, jstancek, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, linville, masami256, mchehab, mcressma, mjg59, mlangsdo, nmurray, qzhao, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, steved, williams
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The CX23888 Integrated Consumer Infrared Controller probe code handles resource cleanup low memory conditions. A local attacker able to induce low memory conditions could use this flaw to crash the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-10-25 22:15:21 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1775117, 1829354, 1829355, 1829356, 1829357, 1829358
Bug Blocks:	1775104

Description msiddiqu 2019-11-21 12:00:11 UTC

A memory leak in the cx23888_ir_probe() function in drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering kfifo_alloc() failures

Upstream commit:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a7b2df76b42bdd026e3106cf2ba97db41345a177

Comment 1 msiddiqu 2019-11-21 12:20:16 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1775117]

Comment 4 Petr Matousek 2020-04-29 12:53:02 UTC

Statement:

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

Comment 5 Petr Matousek 2020-04-29 12:53:06 UTC

Mitigation:

In order to mitigate this issue it is possible to prevent the affected code from being loaded by blacklisting the kernel module cx23885. For instructions relating to how to blacklist a kernel module refer to: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 .