Bug 1775724 (CVE-2019-19077) - CVE-2019-19077 kernel: memory leak in bnxt_re_create_srq function in drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c
Summary: CVE-2019-19077 kernel: memory leak in bnxt_re_create_srq function in drivers/...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-19077
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1724772 1775725 1829254 1829255 1829256 1829257
Blocks: 1775726
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Reported: 2019-11-22 16:33 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2023-10-06 18:48 UTC (History)
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A memory leak flaw was found in the Broadcom NetXtreme HCA driver in the Linux kernel, in the way it handled resource cleanup on the copy to userspace error. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger this error and crash the system.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-25 22:12:51 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-11-22 16:33:49 UTC
A memory leak in the bnxt_re_create_srq() function in drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy to udata failures, aka CID-4a9d46a9fe14.

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4a9d46a9fe14401f21df69cea97c62396d5fb053

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-11-22 16:34:18 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1775725]

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2019-11-27 17:32:15 UTC
This is fixed for Fedora in the 5.3.13 stable kernel update.

Comment 5 Petr Matousek 2020-04-29 10:12:09 UTC
Statement:

This issue is rated as having Moderate impact because local attacker is needed in order to trigger it.

Comment 6 Petr Matousek 2020-04-29 10:12:18 UTC
Mitigation:

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


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