What is GHSA-9m44-5m43-4rmj?

GHSA-9m44-5m43-4rmj is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Low severity. A memory leak in the ql_alloc_large_buffers() function in drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-9m44-5m43-4rmj cover?

GHSA-9m44-5m43-4rmj covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2019-18806. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-9m44-5m43-4rmj?

GHSA-9m44-5m43-4rmj has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-9m44-5m43-4rmjLowCVSS 5.5

A memory leak in the ql_alloc_large_buffers() function in drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 24, 2022

Last Modified

October 8, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2019-18806 →

📋 Description

A memory leak in the ql_alloc_large_buffers() function in drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering pci_dma_mapping_error() failures, aka CID-1acb8f2a7a9f.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18806
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.5
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1acb8f2a7a9f10543868ddd737e37424d5c36cf4
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9m44-5m43-4rmj