CVE-2019-15505: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 7.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/technisat-usb2.c in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9 has an out-of-bounds read via crafted USB device traffic (which may be remote via usbip or usbredir).

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
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 3.16.77 (fixed in 3.16.77); from 3.17, before 4.4.194 (fixed in 4.4.194); from 4.5, before 4.9.194 (fixed in 4.9.194); from 4.10, before 4.14.146 (fixed in 4.14.146); from 4.15, before 4.19.75 (fixed in 4.19.75); from 4.20, before 5.2.17 (fixed in 5.2.17); …

Published 2019-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.