NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-docs package, versions <4.12.14-197.18.1
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- published14 Apr 2022
- disclosed20 Sept 2019
Introduced: 20 Sep 2019
CVE-2019-15924 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.1 kernel-docs to version 4.12.14-197.18.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs package and not the kernel-docs package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 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.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15924.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1149612
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.11
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ca667133d019edc9f0a1f70a272447c84ec41f
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00014.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00015.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/