| Name | CVE-2019-16230 |
| Description | drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_display.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: A third-party software maintainer states that the work queue allocation is happening during device initialization, which for a graphics card occurs during boot. It is not attacker controllable and OOM at that time is highly unlikely |
| Source | CVE (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 Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| linux (PTS) | bullseye | 5.10.223-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.237-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 6.1.137-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.140-1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 6.12.33-1 | vulnerable |
| trixie (security) | 6.12.31-1 | vulnerable |
| sid | 6.12.35-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| linux | source | (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.