CVE-2019-15118: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

check_input_term in sound/usb/mixer.c in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9 mishandles recursion, leading to kernel stack exhaustion.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 5.2.9
• Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Data Availability Services: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Hci Management Node: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire Baseboard Management Controller Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only

Published 2019-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.