NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-modules package, versions *
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EPSS
0.07% (34th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELMODULES-1333678
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 9 Sep 2019
Introduced: 9 Sep 2019
CVE-2019-16229 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-modules.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules package and not the kernel-modules package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_interrupt.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: The security community disputes this issues as not being serious enough to be deserving a CVE id
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16229
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150469#c3
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/9/487
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4284-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4285-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-2/
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