CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-15922

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 04, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.5 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.9. There is a NULL pointer dereference for a pf data structure if alloc_disk fails in drivers/block/paride/pf.c.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Linux_kernelLinux*5.0.9 (excluding)
LinuxUbuntutrusty*
LinuxUbuntuupstream*
Linux-awsUbuntutrusty*
Linux-awsUbuntuupstream*
Linux-aws-hweUbuntuupstream*
Linux-azureUbuntutrusty*
Linux-azureUbuntuupstream*
Linux-azure-edgeUbuntuupstream*
Linux-gcpUbuntuupstream*
Linux-gcp-edgeUbuntuupstream*
Linux-gke-4.15Ubuntuupstream*
Linux-gke-5.0Ubuntuupstream*
Linux-hweUbuntuupstream*
Linux-hwe-edgeUbuntuupstream*
Linux-kvmUbuntuupstream*
Linux-lts-trustyUbuntuupstream*
Linux-lts-xenialUbuntutrusty*
Linux-lts-xenialUbuntuupstream*
Linux-oemUbuntuupstream*
Linux-oemUbuntuxenial*
Linux-oracleUbuntuupstream*
Linux-raspi2Ubuntuupstream*
Linux-snapdragonUbuntuupstream*

Potential Mitigations

References