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CVE-2019-16234

• 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/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04
• Linux kernel: 5.2.14
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00064.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00010.html
• https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/9/487
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4342-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4344-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4345-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4346-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00064.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00010.html
• https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/9/487
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/

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