CVE-2019-16234 Information

Description

drivers/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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00064.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00010.html https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/9/487 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4342-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4344-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4345-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4346-1/

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

4.7