Bug 1775050 (CVE-2019-19057) - CVE-2019-19057 kernel: Two memory leaks in the mwifiex_pcie_init_evt_ring() function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c allows for a DoS
Summary: CVE-2019-19057 kernel: Two memory leaks in the mwifiex_pcie_init_evt_ring() f...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-19057
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 1775051 1776600 1776601 1776602 1781531 1781534
Blocks: 1775052
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Reported: 2019-11-21 11:40 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2020-06-19 01:50 UTC (History)
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Two memory leak flaws were found in the Linux kernel's mwifiex_pcie_init_evt_ring() function. A local attacker, able to reload the kernel module or hotplug Marvell WiFi hardware using this driver, can cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering mwifiex_map_pci_memory() failures.
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Last Closed: 2020-04-28 16:34:52 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2020:2052 0 None None None 2020-05-11 12:53:56 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2020:2626 0 None None None 2020-06-19 01:50:06 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1567 0 None None None 2020-04-28 15:25:19 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1769 0 None None None 2020-04-28 15:51:51 UTC

Description Marian Rehak 2019-11-21 11:40:59 UTC 
Two memory leaks in the mwifiex_pcie_init_evt_ring() function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering mwifiex_map_pci_memory() failures.

Upstream Issue:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d10dcb615c8e29d403a24d35f8310a7a53e3050c
Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2019-11-21 11:41:21 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1775051]
Comment 2 Wade Mealing 2019-11-26 04:15:47 UTC 
My initial findings show that this is only on bringing up the device, not on a regular interval. It is definitely wasted memory if device bringup fails and triggers the flaw, but I don't imagine this is a big impact flaw.
Comment 15 Wade Mealing 2019-12-16 03:54:44 UTC 
The affected function mwifiex_pcie_init_evt_ring

Which is called in two possible ways.

mwifiex_init_pcie()
   -> mwifiex_pcie_alloc_buffers()
    -> mwifiex_pcie_create_evtbd_ring()
     -> mwifiex_pcie_init_evt_ring()

mwifiex_pcie_up_dev() 
   -> mwifiex_pcie_alloc_buffers()
    -> mwifiex_pcie_create_evtbd_ring()
     -> mwifiex_pcie_init_evt_ring()

Both of these functions are used during PCIE device initialization time, with no network traffic existing on the card at this time.  Other reports may show this as a network based attack however as this issue is during the hardware initialization the network attack vector is not correct.
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:25:16 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:1567 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1567
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:51:47 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:1769 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1769
Comment 18 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-04-28 16:34:52 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-2019-19057
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