VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-19048

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability3.75%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-11-18
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A memory leak in the crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy_form_user() failures, aka CID-e0b0cb938864.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-401

Primary references