CVE-2019-12819

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0. The function __mdiobus_register() in drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c calls put_device(), which will trigger a fixed_mdio_bus_init use-after-free. This will cause a denial of service.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-12819

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12819.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.19.37-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.19.37-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.19.37-1
debian debiansidfixed4.19.37-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.19.37-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.