CVE-2019-11683

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

udp_gro_receive_segment in net/ipv4/udp_offload.c in the Linux kernel 5.x before 5.0.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slab-out-of-bounds memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via UDP packets with a 0 payload, because of mishandling of padded packets, aka the "GRO packet of death" issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-11683

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11683.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201905-2

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201905-4

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.0.12.a-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.