CVE-2019-19072: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A memory leak in the predicate_parse() function in kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), aka CID-96c5c6e6a5b6.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 18.04 only; version 19.04 only; version 19.10 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 30 only; version 31 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 5.3.11
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only

Published 2019-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.