CVE-2019-15292: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.9. There is a use-after-free in atalk_proc_exit, related to net/appletalk/atalk_proc.c, net/appletalk/ddp.c, and net/appletalk/sysctl_net_atalk.c.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 3.16.74 (fixed in 3.16.74); from 3.17, before 3.18.139 (fixed in 3.18.139); from 3.19, before 4.4.179 (fixed in 4.4.179); from 4.5, before 4.9.170 (fixed in 4.9.170); from 4.10, before 4.14.113 (fixed in 4.14.113); from 4.15, before 4.19.36 (fixed in 4.19.36); …

Published 2019-08-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.