CVE-2019-15213

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Published 2019-08-19 · Modified 2026-05-28

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CVSS v3

4.6

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.6

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.3. There is a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c driver.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

46%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Affected 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Affected	—
sid	Affected	—
forky	Affected	—
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Affected	—

Linux kernel Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	`5.2.3`

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
15.1	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
netapp	h410c	`-`
netapp	active_iq_unified_manager	`-`
netapp	data_availability_services	`-`
netapp	solidfire_\&_hci_management_node	`-`
netapp	solidfire_baseboard_management_controller	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-416

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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