A memory leak in the sdma_init() function in drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/sdma.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering rhashtable_init() failures, aka CID-34b3be18a04e. NOTE: This has been disputed as not a vulnerability because "rhashtable_init() can only fail if it is passed invalid values in the second parameter's struct, but when invoked from sdma_init() that is a pointer to a static const struct, so an attacker could only trigger failure if they could corrupt kernel memory (in which case a small memory leak is not a significant problem).
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-11-18T05:24:08

Updated: 2024-08-05T02:09:38.445Z

Reserved: 2019-11-18T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-19065

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T02:09:38.445Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-11-18T06:15:12.670

Modified: 2024-08-05T02:15:58.677

Link: CVE-2019-19065

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2019-11-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-19065 - Bugzilla