CVE-2019-15213 — Use After Free in Kernel

CWE-416 — Use After Free7 documents6 sources
Severity
4.6MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 60.92%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Linux KernelOpensuse LeapDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedAug 19
Latest updateMay 24

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 0.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel< 5.2.3
▶debiandebian/linux
▶NVDopensuse/leap15.1

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-55pq-996w-pmwq: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2019-15213: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5↗2019-08-19
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: use-after-free caused by malicious USB device in drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c↗2019-08-19
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Debian
CVE-2019-15213: linux - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.3. There is a use-after-f...↗2019
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-15213 kernel: use-after-free caused by malicious USB device in drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c↗2019-08-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-15213 kernel: use-after-free caused by malicious USB device in drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c [fedora-all]↗2019-08-20
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