CVE-2019-16231: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

drivers/net/fjes/fjes_main.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.04 only; version 19.10 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: version 5.2.14 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2019-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.