CVE-2019-16232: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.1. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/if_sdio.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 19.10 only
  • Fedoraproject Fedora: version 30 only; version 31 only
  • Linux Linux Kernel: version 5.2.14 only
  • Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only

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