CVE-2019-16234

NameCVE-2019-16234
Descriptiondrivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
linux (PTS)buster4.19.249-2vulnerable (unimportant)
buster (security)4.19.304-1vulnerable (unimportant)
bullseye5.10.209-2vulnerable (unimportant)
bullseye (security)5.10.205-2vulnerable (unimportant)
bookworm6.1.76-1vulnerable (unimportant)
bookworm (security)6.1.69-1vulnerable (unimportant)
trixie6.6.15-2vulnerable (unimportant)
sid6.7.9-2vulnerable (unimportant)

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linuxsource(unstable)(unfixed)unimportant

Notes

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/9/487
Requires memory allocation failure during device probe, so unlikely to
be exploitable, and then it's only a local DoS.

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