An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.11....
Vulnerability Description
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.
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References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ca667133d019edc9f0a1f70a272447c84ec41f
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.11
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00014.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/
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