CVE-2019-16233 (GCVE-0-2019-16233)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-09-11 15:30 – Updated: 2024-08-05 01:10
VLAI
Summary
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.
Severity
4.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/9/487 x_refsource_MISC
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2019100… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4227-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4226-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4227-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4346-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
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