CVE-2019-15218

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.1.8. There is a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c driver.

CVSS breakdown

Affected products

• Canonical / Ubuntu Linux16.04 – 16.04
• Canonical / Ubuntu Linux19.04 – 19.04
• Canonical / Ubuntu Linux18.04 – 18.04
• Debian / debian_linux8.0 – 8.0
• Linux / Linux kernel5.1.8
• NetApp / active_iq_unified_manager
• NetApp / data_availability_services
• NetApp / h410c_firmware
• NetApp / solidfire_baseboard_management_controller
• NetApp / solidfire_&_hci_management_node
• openSUSE / Leap15.0 – 15.0
• openSUSE / Leap15.1 – 15.1
• oracle / sd-wan_edge8.2 – 8.2

References

• MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/20/2
• MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/22/2
• MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/22/3
• MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/22/4
• MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/22/5
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4115-1/
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4118-1/
• MAILING_LISThttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00014.html
• MAILING_LISThttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00015.html
• MAILING_LISThttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html
• MAILING_LISThttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html
• MAILING_LISThttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00025.html
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4147-1/
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
• MISChttps://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.1.8
• MISChttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=31e0456de5be379b10fea0fa94a681057114a96e
• MISChttps://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=4a5d7c8c2b6dbedb5b7218c6d7e8666bd2387517
• MISChttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/