Security Advisory

CVE-2019-19048

7.5
HIGH

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date November 18, 2019
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory