# CVE-2019-16230: drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon\_display.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the alloc\_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointe

- Severity: CVSS 4.7 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-09-11 · Updated: 2026-05-28

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_display.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: A third-party software maintainer states that the work queue allocation is happening during device initialization, which for a graphics card occurs during boot. It is not attacker controllable and OOM at that time is highly unlikely

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## References

- https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/9/487
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150468

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