CVE-2019-19045

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The Mellanox Technologies Innova driver mishandles resource cleanup on error. An attacker, able to trigger error could use this flaw to crash the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

This issue is rated as having Moderate impact because of the privileges needed to trigger the resource cleanup code path.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

In order to mitigate this issue it is possible to prevent the affected code from being loaded by blacklisting the kernel module mlx5_core. For instructions relating to how to blacklist a kernel module refer to: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 .