CVE-2019-20095: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mwifiex_tm_cmd in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c in the Linux kernel before 5.1.6 has some error-handling cases that did not free allocated hostcmd memory, aka CID-003b686ace82. This will cause a memory leak and denial of service.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.1.6 (fixed in 5.1.6)
• Netapp 8300 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp 8700 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp a400 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp a700s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Cloud Backup: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Data Availability Services: affected versions not specified
• Netapp E-Series Santricity OS Controller: from 11.0.0, up to and including 11.70.1
• Netapp h610s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Hci Management Node: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage: affected versions not specified
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only

Published 2019-12-30. Last modified 2026-10-08.