A memory leak in the sdma_init() function in drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/sdma.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering rhashtable_init() failures, aka CID-34b3be18a04e. NOTE: This has been disputed as not a vulnerability because "rhashtable_init() can only fail if it is passed invalid values in the second parameter's struct, but when invoked from sdma_init() that is a pointer to a static const struct, so an attacker could only trigger failure if they could corrupt kernel memory (in which case a small memory leak is not a significant problem).
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Published : 2019-11-18 06:15
Updated : 2024-11-21 04:34
NVD link : CVE-2019-19065
Mitre link : CVE-2019-19065
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2019-19065
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Products Affected
linux
- linux_kernel
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
opensuse
- leap
CWE
CWE-401
Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime