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high 7.5

CVE-2019-19053 json

A memory leak in the rpmsg_eptdev_write_iter() function in drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers t…

published 2019-11-18 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-8692

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A memory leak in the rpmsg_eptdev_write_iter() function in drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy_from_iter_full() failures, aka CID-bbe692e349e2.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 5.4.12
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.4.13-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19053

  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-1033.34
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-42.34~18.04.1
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-1035.37
  • linux-aws-5.0 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-1027.30
  • linux-gcp-5.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-1014.15~18.04.1
  • linux-gke-5.0 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-1032.33
  • linux-gke-5.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-1014.15~18.04.1
  • linux-oem-osp1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-1043.48

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19053

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-19053 updated cvss 7.5

kernel: A memory leak in the rpmsg_eptdev_write_iter() function in drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c allows attackers to cause a DoS

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-alt, python-perf, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
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References

Sources

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