CVE-2019-15924

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    CVE-2019-15924

    Published: 4 Sept 2019Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00014.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00015.html, https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.11, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ca667133d019edc9f0a1f70a272447c84ec41f

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