CVE-2019-16229

medium

Description

drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_interrupt.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: The security community disputes this issues as not being serious enough to be deserving a CVE id

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4285-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4284-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/9/487

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150469#c3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-09-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium