CVE-2019-15924

medium

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.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00015.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00014.html

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ca667133d019edc9f0a1f70a272447c84ec41f

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.11

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-09-04

Updated: 2019-09-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H