CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-15099

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Aug 16, 2019 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/usb.c in the Linux kernel through 5.2.8 has a NULL pointer dereference via an incomplete address in an endpoint descriptor.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 4.14 (including) 4.14.157 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 4.15 (including) 4.19.87 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 4.20 (including) 5.3.14 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 5.4.0 (including) 5.4.1 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References