CVSS 3.0
4.6 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2019-15291
Medium (4.6) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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 flexcop_usb_probe function in the drivers/media/usb/b2c2/flexcop-usb.c driver.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 52% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00036.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00037.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155890/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/20/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/22/1