CVE-2019-16231

medium

Description

drivers/net/fjes/fjes_main.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4227-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4227-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4226-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4225-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4225-1/

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

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/9/487

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00039.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00035.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-09-11

Updated: 2020-05-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.1

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

Severity: Medium