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CVE-2019-20096

Public on 2019-12-30
Modified on 2020-03-13
Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP). A local attacker with access to the system can create DCCP sockets to cause a memory leak and repeat this operation to exhaust all memory and panic the system.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2020-03-09 19:20 ALAS-2020-1349
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2020-03-02 23:44 ALAS2-2020-1399
Amazon Linux 2 - Livepatch Extra kernel-livepatch-4.14.165-131.185 2020-03-03 02:24 ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2020-003
Amazon Linux 2 - Livepatch Extra kernel-livepatch-4.14.165-133.209 2020-03-03 02:24 ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2020-002

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H