CVE-2019-15924: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.0.11 (fixed in 5.0.11)

Published 2019-09-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.