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high 7.5

CVE-2019-19061 json

A memory leak in the adis_update_scan_mode_burst() function in drivers/iio/imu/adis_buffer.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attack…

published 2019-11-18 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-8700

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A memory leak in the adis_update_scan_mode_burst() function in drivers/iio/imu/adis_buffer.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-9c0530e898f3.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 4.4.262, 4.9.262, 4.14.192, 4.19.137, 5.3.9
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.3.9-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19061

  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-208.240
  • linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-118.119
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1126.140
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1083.87
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-1084.95~16.04.1
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-118.119~16.04.1
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-26.28~18.04.1
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1091.100

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19061

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-2019-19061 updated cvss 7.5

kernel: A memory leak in the adis_update_scan_mode_burst() function in drivers/iio/imu/adis_buffer.c allows for 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

3.39% 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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Sources

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