CVE-2019-19068

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A memory leak in the realtek driver allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through memory consumption. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

This issue is rated as having Low impact because of the preconditions needed to trigger the error/resource cleanup code path (physical access and/or system-wide out-of-memory condition).

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 rtl8xxxu. For instructions relating to how to blacklist a kernel module refer to: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 .