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CVE-2019-15505
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 7.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2019-08-23 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-125
Description
drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/technisat-usb2.c in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9 has an out-of-bounds read via crafted USB device traffic (which may be remote via usbip or usbredir).
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.04
- Debian Linux: 8.0
- Linux kernel: before 3.16.77; from 3.17 before 4.4.194; from 4.5 before 4.9.194; from 4.10 before 4.14.146; from 4.15 before 4.19.75; from 4.20 before 5.2.17 — fixed in 3.16.77, 4.14.146, 4.19.75, 4.4.194, 4.9.194, 5.2.17
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 3.16.77, 4.14.146, 4.19.75, 4.4.194. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155212/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html
- https://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git/commit/?id=0c4df39e504bf925ab666132ac3c98d6cbbe380b
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00013.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3RUDQJXRJQVGHCGR4YZWTQ3ECBI7TXH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4JZ6AEUKFWBHQAROGMQARJ274PQP2QP/
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20190821104408.w7krumcglxo6fz5q%40gofer.mess.org/
- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b9b256cb-95f2-5fa1-9956-5a602a017c11%40gmail.com/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/11
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K28222050
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K28222050?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
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