CVE-2019-19075: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A memory leak in the ca8210_probe() function in drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering ca8210_get_platform_data() failures, aka CID-6402939ec86e.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.04 only; version 19.10 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.12, before 4.14.151 (fixed in 4.14.151); from 4.15, before 4.19.81 (fixed in 4.19.81); from 4.20, before 5.3.8 (fixed in 5.3.8)

Published 2019-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.