Bug 1791959 (CVE-2019-20096)
Summary: | CVE-2019-20096 kernel: memory leak in __feat_register_sp() in net/dccp/feat.c | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | acaringi, airlied, 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, rtillery, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, steved, williams, wmealing |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP). A local attacker with access to the system can create DCCP sockets to cause a memory leak and repeat this operation to exhaust all memory and panic the system.
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Last Closed: | 2021-12-15 11:13:03 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1791960, 1795867, 1795868, 1795869, 1795870, 1795871, 1795872 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 1791962 |
Description
Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
2020-01-16 19:06:44 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1791960] That was fixed for Fedora with the 5.1 kernel rebases. Mitigation: As the DCCP module will be auto-loaded when required, its use can be disabled. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 (and later) and 8.0 (and later) already have this disabled, but for any other version, the system can prevent the module from loading with the following instructions : # echo "install dccp /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.d/disable-dccp.conf The system will need to be restarted if the DCCP modules are loaded. In most circumstances, the DCCP kernel modules will be unable to be unloaded while any network interfaces are active and the protocol is in use. If you need further assistance, see KCS article https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 or contact Red Hat Global Support Services. |