Description
A memory leak in the cx23888_ir_probe() function in drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering kfifo_alloc() failures, aka CID-a7b2df76b42b.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a7b2df76b42bdd026e3106cf2ba97db41345a177 ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3PSDE6PTOTVBK2YTKB2TFQP2SUBVSNF/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PY7LJMSPAGRIKABJPDKQDTXYW3L5RX2T/ ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/ ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4527-1/ ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4526-1/ ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4525-1/ ↗