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CVE-2019-15117
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.6% 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-119
Description
parse_audio_mixer_unit in sound/usb/mixer.c in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9 mishandles a short descriptor, leading to out-of-bounds memory access.
Affected products
- Linux kernel: through 5.2.9
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
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?id=daac07156b330b18eb5071aec4b3ddca1c377f2c
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00025.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00000.html
- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190814023625.21683-1-benquike%40gmail.com/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/11
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/41
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K16449953?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4147-1/
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