CVE-2019-16229

unknown

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

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Description

drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_interrupt.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: The security community disputes this issues as not being serious enough to be deserving a CVE id

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16229

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16229.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	affected
debian	bullseye	affected
debian	forky	affected
debian	sid	affected
debian	trixie	affected

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16229.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16229

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.