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CVE-2019-15090

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue was discovered in drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_dbg.c in the Linux kernel before 5.1.12. In the qedi_dbg_* family of functions, there is an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.10
• Linux kernel: before 5.1.12 — fixed in 5.1.12
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.1.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.1.12
• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c09581a52765a85f19fc35340127396d5e3379cc
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c09581a52765a85f19fc35340127396d5e3379cc
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4115-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4147-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.1.12

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