CVE-2019-16230

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 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/radeon/radeon_display.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: A third-party software maintainer states that the work queue allocation is happening during device initialization, which for a graphics card occurs during boot. It is not attacker controllable and OOM at that time is highly unlikely

Affected products

Linux kernel: 5.2.14

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150468
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/9/487
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150468
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/9/487
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/

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