Bug 1763828 (CVE-2019-15922) - CVE-2019-15922 kernel: null pointer dereference in drivers/block/paride/pf.c
Summary: CVE-2019-15922 kernel: null pointer dereference in drivers/block/paride/pf.c
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2019-15922
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1763829
Blocks: 1763830
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Reported: 2019-10-21 17:18 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2020-02-24 16:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-02-24 16:49:04 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-10-21 17:18:01 UTC 
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.9. There is a NULL pointer dereference for a pf data structure if alloc_disk fails in drivers/block/paride/pf.c.

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/58ccd2d31e502c37e108b285bf3d343eb00c235b
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-10-21 17:18:27 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1763829]
Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2019-10-22 12:56:01 UTC 
This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.0.9 stable kernel updates.
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