CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-16231

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 11, 2019 | Modified: May 04, 2020
CVSS 3.x
4.1
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.7 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

drivers/net/fjes/fjes_main.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 5.2.14 (including) 5.2.14 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References