CVE-2019-19947 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2019-19947?

CVE-2019-19947 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 23 Dec 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel through 5.4.6, there are information leaks of uninitialized memory to a USB device in the drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_leaf.c driver, aka CID-da2311a6385c.

Weakness: CWE-908

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19947?

It affects 13 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp Aff Baseboard Management Controller, Netapp Cloud Backup and 7 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-19947?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2019-19947 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19947 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19947, GHSA-hvvf-8784-846m, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19947.