CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-15924
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.11. fm10k_init_module in drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c has a NULL pointer dereference because there is no -ENOMEM upon an alloc_workqueue failure.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.0.11)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.11 Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ca667133d019edc9f0a1f70a272447c84ec41f Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00014.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00015.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/ security.netapp.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.11 Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ca667133d019edc9f0a1f70a272447c84ec41f Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00014.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00015.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/ security.netapp.com