Critical severity · published Sep 4, 2019
CVE-2019-15926
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.3
9.1
CVSS
5.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.3. Out of bounds access exists in the functions ath6kl_wmi_pstream_timeout_event_rx and ath6kl_wmi_cac_event_rx in the file drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/wmi.c.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.3% · higher than 93% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
3.2 before 3.16.74; 3.17 before 4.4.187; 4.5 before 4.9.187; 4.10 before 4.14.135; 4.15 before 4.19.61; 4.20 before 5.1.20; +1 more · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04; 18.04; 19.10 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15926
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15926
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html
Mailing List
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.2.3
Mailing List
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5d6751eaff672ea77642e74e92e6c0ac7f9709ab
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00014.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00015.html
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