CVE-2019-15918 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2019-15918?

CVE-2019-15918 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 4 Sep 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.10. SMB2_negotiate in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c has an out-of-bounds read because data structures are incompletely updated after a change from smb30 to smb21.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-15918?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2019-15918?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2019-15918 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-15918 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
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-15918, GHSA-54gc-9mvf-cqgf, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15918.