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CVE-2019-16229
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.1 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2019-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-476
Description
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_interrupt.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: The security community disputes this issues as not being serious enough to be deserving a CVE id
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.10
- Linux kernel: 5.2.14
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0, 8.0
References
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150469#c3
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/9/487
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4284-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4285-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-2/
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150469#c3
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/9/487
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4284-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4285-1/
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