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Message-ID: <CA+fCnZcH6Q-i89E0oB=KmxXZAvoT5v+uhS9MV=8xR05BVX-+QA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:01:48 +0200
From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: mathias.payer@...elwelt.net, benquike@...il.com
Subject: Re: Linux kernel: multiple vulnerabilities in the USB
 subsystem x2

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 6:51 PM Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com> wrote:
>
> On 2019-08-20 20:20:34, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> > * https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-15290
> >
> > An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9. There is a
> > NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the
> > ath6kl_usb_alloc_urb_from_pipe function in the
> > drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/usb.c driver.
>
> This seems like it might be a duplicate of CVE-2019-15098. The fix for
> CVE-2019-15098 was recently merged upstream:
>
>  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=39d170b3cb62ba98567f5c4f40c27b5864b304e5
>
> If you agree, could you request that MITRE mark CVE-2019-15290 as a
> duplicate of CVE-2019-15098?

Oh, nice, Mathias and Hui found it as well and fixed it! =)

Yes, these two CVEs are for the same issue, feel free to mark them as such.

Thanks!

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