CVE-2019-10207

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-11-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth implementation of UART, all versions kernel 3.x.x before 4.18.0 and kernel 5.x.x. An attacker with local access and write permissions to the Bluetooth hardware could use this flaw to issue a specially crafted ioctl function call and cause the system to crash.

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 3.0 before 4.18.0; from 5.0 through 5.4 — fixed in 4.18.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.18.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10207
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200103-0001/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10207
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200103-0001/

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