{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2019-09-04T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: null pointer dereference in drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c",
    "id" : "1763869",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1763869"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-476",
  "details" : [ "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.", "A flaw was found in the way the fm10k driver in the Linux kernel reacted to memory-related errors during driver initialization. This flaw allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service and crash the system." ],
  "statement" : "This issue is rated as having Low impact because of the low memory conditions needed to trigger this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2019-11-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:3309",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-147.rt24.93.el8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2019-11-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:3517",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-147.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-alt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15924\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15924" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2019-15924",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "To mitigate this issue, prevent module fm10k from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}