CVE-2019-15098 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2019-15098?

CVE-2019-15098 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 16 Aug 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/usb.c in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9 has a NULL pointer dereference via an incomplete address in an endpoint descriptor.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-15098?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Netapp Active Iq Performance Analytics Services, Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp Data Availability Services and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-15098?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2019-15098 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-15098 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as CVE-2019-15290, DEBIAN-CVE-2019-15098, GHSA-jrv5-9rmq-5rv5, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15098.