Use of NullPointerException Catch to Detect NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-doc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-KERNELDOC-6409266
  • published14 Mar 2024
  • disclosed6 Mar 2024

Introduced: 6 Mar 2024

CVE-2023-52607  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-395  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-doc package and not the kernel-doc package as distributed by Centos.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add

kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful by checking the pointer validity.