CVE-2019-15218: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.1.8. There is a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c driver.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.1.8 (fixed in 5.1.8)
• 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 Solidfire & Hci Management Node: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire Baseboard Management Controller: affected versions not specified
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only
• Oracle SD-WAN Edge: version 8.2 only

Published 2019-08-19. Last modified 2026-10-08.