CVE-2019-15098

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% 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-476

Description

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/usb.c in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9 has a NULL pointer dereference via an incomplete address in an endpoint descriptor.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
Linux kernel: through 5.2.9
NetApp Active Iq Performance Analytics Services: all versions
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: from 9.5
NetApp Data Availability Services: all versions
NetApp Element Software: all versions
openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155212/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/27/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/27/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/27/3
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00013.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20190804002905.11292-1-benquike%40gmail.com/T/#u
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/11
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K61214359

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