CVE-2019-17666

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

rtl_p2p_noa_ie in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/ps.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.6 lacks a certain upper-bound check, leading to a buffer overflow.

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-2019-17666

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17666.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201911-9

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201911-10

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201911-11

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201911-12

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.3.9.1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.3.9-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.3.9-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.3.9-1
debian debiansidfixed5.3.9-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.3.9-1

References

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