WaratekVRT Sign in

CVE-2019-15216

Affected software4 products, listed below
Severity4.6 Medium CVSS 3.1 2 scores
WeaknessCWE-476
Published19 Aug 2019
Updated17 Jun 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.14. There is a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c driver.

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published 7 years ago.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment no assessment published
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 0.69% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

Outside Waratek scope

A Java vulnerability, but not one Waratek protects. It affects only Java on a user's desktop (applets, Web Start, JavaFX, the installer), sits in a product the Waratek agent can't be installed into, or is in a package we don't expect in business applications. The decision below says which.

  • Protection none
  • Action not pursued none
  • Review human Researcher
  • Record active
Decided by Manual classification of this CVE in the legacy dataset
Finding A manual classification set this CVE's status to Outside Waratek scope, but the CVE names a tracked product.

CVSS

4.6 MEDIUM v3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 2 metrics

We show the highest score from the newest CVSS version. Scores from different versions can't be compared, and the first score listed is sometimes a 0.0 placeholder.

VersionScoreBandVectorAssignerType
CVSS 3.1 4.6 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H NVD Primary published
CVSS 2.0 4.9 none AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C NVD Primary

Affected software and releases

Products and versions

9 products, 12 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd canonical ubuntu linux generic 16.04 · 18.04 · 19.04
nvd debian debian linux generic 8.0
nvd linux linux kernel generic < 5.0.14
nvd netapp active iq unified manager generic any version
nvd netapp data availability services generic any version
nvd netapp h410c firmware generic any version
nvd netapp solidfire \& hci management node generic any version
nvd netapp solidfire baseboard management controller generic any version
nvd opensuse leap generic 15.0 · 15.1

References

URLTags
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/20/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/22/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/22/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/22/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/22/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.14 Release Notes
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ef61eb43ada6c1d6b94668f0f514e4c268093ff3 Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00014.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published2019-08-19By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.