cve/2019/CVE-2019-19048.md

### [CVE-2019-19048](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-19048)
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### Description

A memory leak in the crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy_form_user() failures, aka CID-e0b0cb938864.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.3.9
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4208-1/

#### Github
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