Bug 1775097 (CVE-2019-19056)

Summary:	CVE-2019-19056 kernel: A memory leak in the mwifiex_pcie_alloc_cmdrsp_buf() function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c allows to cause 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, 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 way the mwifiex PCIE driver in the Linux kernel handled resource cleanup on a DMA mapping error. This flaw allows an attacker able to trigger the DMA mapping error to crash the system.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2020-11-04 02:23:26 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1775115, 1829227, 1829228, 1829229, 1829230, 1829231
Bug Blocks:	1775108

Description msiddiqu 2019-11-21 12:10:30 UTC

A memory leak in the mwifiex_pcie_alloc_cmdrsp_buf() function indrivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering mwifiex_map_pci_memory() failures

Upstream commit:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/db8fd2cde93227e566a412cf53173ffa227998bc

Comment 1 msiddiqu 2019-11-21 12:19:38 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1775115]

Comment 5 Petr Matousek 2020-04-29 09:01:48 UTC

Mitigation:

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

Comment 6 Petr Matousek 2020-04-29 09:03:01 UTC

Statement:

This issue is rated as having Low impact because of the preconditions needed to trigger the resource cleanup code path (DMA mapping error).

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 00:49:47 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 9 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 02:21:40 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 10 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-11-04 02:23:26 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-2019-19056