CVE-2019-15924 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2019-15924?

CVE-2019-15924 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 Sep 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-15924?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2019-15924?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2019-15924 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-15924 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-15924, GHSA-9cjc-jqp3-xq73, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15924.