Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting kernel-doc package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELDOC-8319061
- published 31 Oct 2024
- disclosed 29 Oct 2024
Introduced: 29 Oct 2024
CVE-2024-50088 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 kernel-doc.
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 RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix uninitialized pointer free in add_inode_ref()
The add_inode_ref() function does not initialize the "name" struct when it is declared. If any of the following calls to "read_one_inode() returns NULL,
dir = read_one_inode(root, parent_objectid);
if (!dir) {
ret = -ENOENT;
goto out;
}
inode = read_one_inode(root, inode_objectid);
if (!inode) {
ret = -EIO;
goto out;
}
then "name.name" would be freed on "out" before being initialized.
out: ... kfree(name.name);
This issue was reported by Coverity with CID 1526744.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50088
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12cf028381aa19bc38465341512c280256e8d82d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66691c6e2f18d2aa4b22ffb624b9bdc97e9979e4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a941f3d5b1469c60a7e70e775584f110b47e0d16
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e11ce03b58743bf1e096c48fcaa7e6f08eb75dfa