Bug 1745523 (CVE-2019-15216)

Summary:	CVE-2019-15216 kernel: null-pointer dereference in drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c driver
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, airlied, bhu, blc, brdeoliv, bskeggs, dhoward, dvlasenk, esammons, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jeremy, jforbes, jglisse, jlelli, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, jross, jshortt, jstancek, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, linville, masami256, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mjg59, mlangsdo, nmurray, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, steved, williams
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1745524
Bug Blocks:	1745538

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-08-26 10:21:41 UTC

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel before. There is a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c driver.

Reference:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ef61eb43ada6c1d6b94668f0f514e4c268093ff3
f0b1f2952022c75394c0eef2afeb17af90f9227e

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-08-26 10:22:27 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1745524]

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2019-08-26 13:11:51 UTC

This was fixed for Fedora in the 5.0.14 stable update