CVE-2019-3874

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 5.3
EPSS
EPSS 1.77 % · percentile 78 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Modified

Description

The SCTP socket buffer used by a userspace application is not accounted by the cgroups subsystem. An attacker can use this flaw to cause a denial of service attack. Kernel 3.10.x and 4.18.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hredhat
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0LOW 3.3AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
The Linux Foundation · kernelaffected 3.10.x and 4.18.x

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD