Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 18, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-19047

Description

A memory leak in the mlx5_fw_fatal_reporter_dump() function in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering mlx5_crdump_collect() failures, aka CID-c7ed6d0183d5.

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Affected products

Linux/Linux kerneldescription
Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy2 versions
<5.3.11+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <5.3.11
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <5.3.11
Canonical/Ubuntu Linux2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

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References

github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c7ed6d0183d5ea9bc31bcaeeba4070bd62546471nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.11nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/nvdThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com/4225-1/nvdThird Party Advisory

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