NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-debug package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELDEBUG-8285180
- published 23 Oct 2024
- disclosed 21 Oct 2024
Introduced: 21 Oct 2024
CVE-2024-49962 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-debug.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug package and not the kernel-debug package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() in acpi_db_convert_to_package()
ACPICA commit 4d4547cf13cca820ff7e0f859ba83e1a610b9fd0
ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() may fail, elements might be NULL and will cause NULL pointer dereference later.
[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49962
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c9b8775062f8d854a80caf186af57fc617d454c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4588ea78d3904bebb613b0bb025669e75800f546
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5242874488eba2b9062985bf13743c029821330
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a907c113a8b66972f15f084d7dff960207b1f71d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae5d4c7e76ba393d20366dfea1f39f24560ffb1d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbb67e245dacd02b5e1d82733892647df1523982
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f282db38953ad71dd4f3f8877a4e1d37e580e30a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/402b4c6b7500c7cca6972d2456a4a422801035b5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4669da66ebc5b09881487f30669b0fcdb462188e