A memory leak in the nfp_flower_spawn_vnic_reprs() function in drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-8ce39eb5a67a. Reference and upstream commit: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8ce39eb5a67aee25d9f05b40b673c95b23502e3e
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1776376]
This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.3.4 stable kernel updates.
Statement: This issue is rated as having Low impact because of the low memory conditions needed to trigger this issue.
Mitigation: To mitigate this issue, prevent module nfp from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.