NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package dtb-socionext  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-DTBSOCIONEXT-2755827
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed20 Sept 2019

Introduced: 20 Sep 2019

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

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dtb-socionext package and not the dtb-socionext package as distributed by SLES.

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.