Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2019-05-25 CWE: CWE-252 Bugzilla: 1715494: CVE-2019-12380 kernel: memory allocation failure in the efi subsystem leads to denial of service An issue was discovered in the efi subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. phys_efi_set_virtual_address_map in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c and efi_call_phys_prolog in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c mishandle memory allocation failures.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2019-12380 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS3 Base Score | 6.2 |
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CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Attack Vector | Local |
Attack Complexity | Low |
Privileges Required | None |
User Interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | None |
Integrity Impact | None |
Availability Impact | High |
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat Virtualization 4 | kernel | Under investigation |
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 | kernel-rt | Under investigation |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | kernel | Under investigation |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | kernel-rt | Under investigation |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel-alt | Under investigation |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel | Under investigation |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel-rt | Under investigation |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kernel | Under investigation |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kernel | Under investigation |