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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2019-19080 json

Four memory leaks in the nfp_flower_spawn_phy_reprs() function in drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c in the Linux kernel befo…

published 2019-11-18 6 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also EUVD-2019-8719

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.8%
EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Four memory leaks in the nfp_flower_spawn_phy_reprs() function in drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.4 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-8572cea1461a.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 5.3.4
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.3.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19080

  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-1025.26~18.04.1
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-35.38~18.04.1
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-1025.27~18.04.1
  • linux-gke-5.0 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-1025.26~18.04.1
  • linux-oem-osp1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-1027.31

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19080

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

  • kernel-rt Real Time Module 15 SP1 4.12.14-14.17.1
  • kernel-syms-rt Real Time Module 15 SP1 4.12.14-14.17.1
  • kernel-rt_debug Real Time Module 15 SP1 4.12.14-14.17.1
  • kernel-source-rt Real Time Module 15 SP1 4.12.14-14.17.1
  • kernel-azure SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 4.12.14-16.7.1
  • kernel-syms-azure SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 4.12.14-16.7.1
  • kernel-source-azure SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 4.12.14-16.7.1
  • kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP1 4.12.14-8.22.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:0613-1SUSE-SU-2020:0093-1SUSE-SU-2019:3372-1SUSE-SU-2019:3317-1SUSE-SU-2019:3200-1

  • kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.36.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.36.1
  • kernel-source openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.36.1
  • kernel-default openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.36.1
  • kernel-vanilla openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.36.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.36.1
  • kernel-obs-build openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.36.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2019:2675-1

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-2019-19080 updated cvss 5.9

kernel: memory leaks in the nfp_flower_spawn_phy_reprs() function in drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c leads to DoS

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-rt-kvm, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-debug-kvm, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more
    affected: workaround, no fix available “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.”
  • 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, kernel-alt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-tools, +3 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

2.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.1 AV:N/AC:M/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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