NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-rt package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELRT-9894995
  • published29 Apr 2025
  • disclosed4 Sept 2019

Introduced: 4 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-15924  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 kernel-rt.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt package and not the kernel-rt package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.