A memory leak in the mlx5_fw_fatal_reporter_dump() function in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering mlx5_crdump_collect() failures, aka CID-c7ed6d0183d5.
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.
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https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.11 | release notes vendor advisory |
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c7ed6d0183d5ea9bc31bcaeeba4070bd62546471 | third party advisory patch |
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/ | third party advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4225-1/ | third party advisory vendor advisory |