{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2019-11-21T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: memory leak in the crypto_report() function in crypto/crypto_user_base.c allows for DoS",
    "id" : "1775021",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1775021"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.7",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-400",
  "details" : [ "A memory leak in the crypto_report() function in crypto/crypto_user_base.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering crypto_report_alg() failures, aka CID-ffdde5932042.", "A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The crypto_report function mishandles resource cleanup on error. A local attacker able to induce the error conditions could use this flaw to crash the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability." ],
  "statement" : "This issue is rated as having Low impact because of the preconditions needed to trigger the error cleanup code path.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2020-09-29T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:4062",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_extras_rt:7",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-1160.rt56.1131.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2020-07-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:2854",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "kernel-alt-0:4.14.0-115.26.1.el7a"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2020-09-29T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:4060",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "kernel-0:3.10.0-1160.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2020-11-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:4609",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-240.rt7.54.el8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2020-11-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:4431",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-240.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19062\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19062" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2019-19062",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "In order to mitigate this issue it is possible to prevent the affected code from being loaded by blacklisting the kernel module crypto_user. For instructions relating to how to blacklist a kernel module refer to: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 .",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}