CVE-2019-15666

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

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.19. There is an out-of-bounds array access in __xfrm_policy_unlink, which will cause denial of service, because verify_newpolicy_info in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c mishandles directory validation.

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-2019-15666

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15666.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.2.6-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.2.6-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.2.6-1
debian debiansidfixed5.2.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.2.6-1

References

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