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CVE-2019-15924

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: 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 products

• Linux kernel: before 5.0.11 — fixed in 5.0.11

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.0.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.11
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ca667133d019edc9f0a1f70a272447c84ec41f
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00014.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00015.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.11
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ca667133d019edc9f0a1f70a272447c84ec41f
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00014.html

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