NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting linux-6.1 package, versions <6.1.119-1~deb11u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LINUX61-8601466
  • published2 Jan 2025
  • disclosed19 Nov 2024

Introduced: 19 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-53060  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 linux-6.1 to version 6.1.119-1~deb11u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-6.1 package and not the linux-6.1 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

drm/amdgpu: prevent NULL pointer dereference if ATIF is not supported

acpi_evaluate_object() may return AE_NOT_FOUND (failure), which would result in dereferencing buffer.pointer (obj) while being NULL.

Although this case may be unrealistic for the current code, it is still better to protect against possible bugs.

Bail out also when status is AE_NOT_FOUND.

This fixes 1 FORWARD_NULL issue reported by Coverity Report: CID 1600951: Null pointer dereferences (FORWARD_NULL)

(cherry picked from commit 91c9e221fe2553edf2db71627d8453f083de87a1)

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