CVE-2019-19524: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel before 5.3.12, there is a use-after-free bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/input/ff-memless.c driver, aka CID-fa3a5a1880c9.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.04 only; version 19.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.3.12 (fixed in 5.3.12)

Published 2019-12-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.