Bug 1743552 (CVE-2019-15098) - CVE-2019-15098 kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/usb.c leads to a crash
Summary: CVE-2019-15098 kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/net/wireless/ath...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2019-15098
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1763872
Blocks: 1743553
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Reported: 2019-08-20 08:24 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2021-02-16 21:29 UTC (History)
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of the ath6kl wireless network driver implementation, which could allow an attacker with physical access with custom USB hardware to plug into a rogue USB device that can create a condition where the kernel will panic.
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Last Closed: 2019-11-21 07:04:52 UTC
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Description Marian Rehak 2019-08-20 08:24:16 UTC 
A flaw in the Linux kernels implementation of the ath6kl wireless network driver implementation could allow an attacker with physical access with custom USB hardware to plug in a rogue USB device that can possibly create a condition where the kernel will panic.

Red Hat does not include the code affected by this flaw in currently shipping releases.

Upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=39d170b3cb62ba98567f5c4f40c27b5864b304e5
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-10-21 19:25:59 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1763872]
Comment 3 Wade Mealing 2019-11-21 06:47:50 UTC 
External References:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=39d170b3cb62ba98567f5c4f40c27b5864b304e5
Comment 4 Wade Mealing 2019-11-21 06:48:42 UTC 
Mitigation:

No mitigation is required as Red Hat kernels are not affected.
Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-11-21 07:04:52 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-15098
Comment 6 Justin M. Forbes 2020-03-19 21:54:39 UTC 
This is fixed for Fedora with the 5.3.9 stable kernel updates.
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