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CVE-2019-15920

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.10. SMB2_read in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c has a use-after-free. NOTE: this was not fixed correctly in 5.0.10; see the 5.0.11 ChangeLog, which documents a memory leak.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: before 5.0.10 — fixed in 5.0.10
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.0.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.10
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/088aaf17aa79300cab14dbee2569c58cfafd7d6e
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.10
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/088aaf17aa79300cab14dbee2569c58cfafd7d6e
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/

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