PT-2019-14473 · Linux+4 · Linux Kernel+4

Published 2019-05-04 · Updated 2021-05-28 · CVE-2019-15924

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 5.0.11

Description A NULL pointer dereference issue was discovered in the Linux kernel. This occurs in the fm10k init module function within drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k main.c due to the lack of error handling for an alloc workqueue failure, specifically not checking for -ENOMEM.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 5.0.11, update to version 5.0.11 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2019-1762

ALT-PU-2019-1767

ALT-PU-2020-1198

ALT-PU-2020-1501

ALT-PU-2020-2410

ALT-PU-2020-2433

ALT-PU-2021-1870

CESA-2019_3309

CESA-2019_3517

CVE-2019-15924

DLA-1919-1

DLA-1919-2

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2173-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2181-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_2173-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_2181-1

RHSA-2019:3309

RHSA-2019:3517

RHSA-2019_3309

RHSA-2019_3517

SUSE-SU-2019:2412-1

SUSE-SU-2019:2414-1

SUSE-SU-2019:2424-1

SUSE-SU-2019:2648-1

SUSE-SU-2019:2651-1

SUSE-SU-2019:2658-1

SUSE-SU-2019:2738-1

SUSE-SU-2019:2756-1

SUSE-SU-2019:2949-1

SUSE-SU-2019:2984-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

Suse

References · 619

• 🔥 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ca667133d019edc9f0a1f70a272447c84ec41f · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2019:2181-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15924 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2019:2173-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:2414-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-15924 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:2756-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15924 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:2424-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.11 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:2658-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:2648-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:2949-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1919-1 · Vendor Advisory