CVE-2019-10207

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth implementation of UART, all versions kernel 3.x.x before 4.18.0 and kernel 5.x.x. An attacker with local access and write permissions to the Bluetooth hardware could use this flaw to issue a specially crafted ioctl function call and cause the system to crash.

CVSS Metrics

• v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
• v3.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.7CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
• v2.0•LOW•Score: 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.70%• Percentile: 72%

Techniques & Countermeasures

• CWE-476•NULL Pointer Dereference

  The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Systems

• linux•linux_kernel

  ≥ 3.0, < 4.18.0 | ≥ 5.0, ≤ 5.4

• red hat•kernel

  all versions kernel 3.x.x before 4.18.0 and kernel 5.x.x

References (2)

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10207
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200103-0001/