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CVE-2019-15118

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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-674

Description

check_input_term in sound/usb/mixer.c in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9 mishandles recursion, leading to kernel stack exhaustion.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• Linux kernel: through 5.2.9
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
• NetApp Data Availability Services: all versions
• NetApp H410C Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Hci Management Node: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire Baseboard Management Controller Firmware: 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
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?id=19bce474c45be69a284ecee660aa12d8f1e88f18
• 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/20190815043554.16623-1-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://usn.ubuntu.com/4147-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4162-1/

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