CVE-2019-16234

4.7 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (4.7). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.7 medium

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

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 37% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-476
Published: 2019-09-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

canonical:ubuntu_linux
linux:linux_kernel
opensuse:leap

References

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/

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