Bug 1749977 (CVE-2019-15290)

Summary:	CVE-2019-15290 kernel: Null pointer dereference in the ath6kl_usb_alloc_urb_from_pipe function in the drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/usb.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, airlied, allarkin, aquini, bdettelb, bhu, blc, brdeoliv, bskeggs, cye, dbohanno, dhoward, doconnor, dvlasenk, esammons, esandeen, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarod, jarodwilson, jeremy, jfaracco, jforbes, jglisse, jlelli, joe.lawrence, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, jross, jschorr, jshortt, jstancek, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lcapitulino, lgoncalv, linville, lzampier, masami256, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mjg59, mlangsdo, mleitner, mmilgram, nmurray, plougher, ptalbert, rparrazo, rrobaina, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, rysulliv, scweaver, steved, sukulkar, teagle, williams, wmealing, ycote, ykopkova, zhijwang
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	[REJECTED CVE] An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9. There is a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the ath6kl_usb_alloc_urb_from_pipe function in the drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/usb.c driver.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1749990
Bug Blocks:	1749992

Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-09-07 01:25:00 UTC

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9. There is a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the ath6kl_usb_alloc_urb_from_pipe function in the drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/usb.c driver.

References:

https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=cd8b9cfe50a0bf36ee19eda2d7e2e06843dfbeaf
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/20/2

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2019-09-07 02:34:14 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1749990]

Comment 2 TEJ RATHI 2025-06-09 11:39:40 UTC

This flaw was found to be a duplicate of CVE-2019-15098. Please see https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15098 for information about affected products and security errata.