CVE-2019-16234: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 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.