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CVE-2019-15213

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-08-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.3. There is a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c driver.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: before 5.2.3 — fixed in 5.2.3
• 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 Solidfire & Hci Management Node: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire Baseboard Management Controller: all versions
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.2.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00029.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/20/2
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.2.3
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6cf97230cd5f36b7665099083272595c55d72be7
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/
• https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=a53c9c9dd2981bfdbfbcbc1ddbd35595eda8bced
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00029.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/20/2
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.2.3
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6cf97230cd5f36b7665099083272595c55d72be7
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/
• https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=a53c9c9dd2981bfdbfbcbc1ddbd35595eda8bced

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