VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-19071

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability3.84%
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 rsi_send_beacon() function in drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mgmt.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering rsi_prepare_beacon() failures, aka CID-d563131ef23c.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Primary references