CVE-2019-14559

Publication date 31 December 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Uncontrolled resource consumption in EDK II may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via network access.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
edk2 20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Fixed 0~20190606.20d2e5a1-2ubuntu1.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0~20180205.c0d9813c-2ubuntu0.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0~20160408.ffea0a2c-2ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2020-03-05, two of the upstream bugs still aren't resolved

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
edk2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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