CVE-2019-15291

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v3.0)
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: 2019-08-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9. There is a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the flexcop_usb_probe function in the drivers/media/usb/b2c2/flexcop-usb.c driver.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 5.2.9

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00036.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00037.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155890/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/20/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/22/1
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00013.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/10
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=c0203bd72037d07493f4b7562411e4f5f4553a8f
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4254-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4254-2/

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