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CVE-2019-15925

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.3. An out of bounds access exists in the function hclge_tm_schd_mode_vnet_base_cfg in the file drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_tm.c.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04, 19.04
• Linux kernel: from 4.14 before 4.14.135; from 4.15 before 4.19.61; from 4.20 before 5.1.20; from 5.2 before 5.2.3 — fixed in 4.14.135, 4.19.61, 5.1.20, 5.2.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.14.135, 4.19.61, 5.1.20, 5.2.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• 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=04f25edb48c441fc278ecc154c270f16966cbb90
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4147-1/
• 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=04f25edb48c441fc278ecc154c270f16966cbb90
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4147-1/

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