CVE-2019-19077

A memory leak flaw was found in the Broadcom NetXtreme HCA driver in the Linux kernel, in the way it handled resource cleanup on the copy to userspace error. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger this error and crash the system.

This issue is rated as having Moderate impact because local attacker is needed in order to trigger it.

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