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medium 4.6

CVE-2019-15098 json

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 endp…

published 2019-08-16 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-6172

cvss
4.6
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 55%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.3.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-15098

  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-168.197
  • linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-69.78
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1098.109
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1054.56
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-1049.52
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-1025.26~18.04.1
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-69.78~16.04.1
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.0.0-35.38~18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15098

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2-LTSS, SLES 12 SP2-BCL +1 more 4.4.121-92.125.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2-LTSS, SLES 12 SP2-BCL +1 more 4.4.121-92.125.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2-LTSS, SLES 12 SP2-BCL +2 more 4.4.121-92.125.1
  • kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP2_Update_33 SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud 7 1-3.5.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, SLES 12 SP3-BCL +4 more 4.4.180-94.107.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, SLES 12 SP3-BCL +4 more 4.4.180-94.107.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, SLES 12 SP3-BCL +5 more 4.4.180-94.107.1
  • kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_29 SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 +3 more 1-4.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:2984-1SUSE-SU-2019:2949-1SUSE-SU-2019:2950-1SUSE-SU-2019:2756-1SUSE-SU-2019:2738-1SUSE-SU-2019:2658-1

  • kernel-source openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.14.6-1.4
  • kernel-source openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.6.17-1.1
  • kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.16.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.16.1
  • kernel-source openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.16.1
  • kernel-default openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.16.1
  • kernel-vanilla openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.16.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.16.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10728-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13704-1openSUSE-SU-2019:2181-1openSUSE-SU-2019:2173-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-15098 updated cvss 4.3

kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/usb.c leads to a crash

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-alt, python-perf, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
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References

Sources

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