NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-doc package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10
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- published 4 Apr 2024
- disclosed 3 Apr 2024
Introduced: 3 Apr 2024
CVE-2024-26744 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-doc to version 0:4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:3618.
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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/srpt: Support specifying the srpt_service_guid parameter
Make loading ib_srpt with this parameter set work. The current behavior is that setting that parameter while loading the ib_srpt kernel module triggers the following kernel crash:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 Call Trace: <TASK> parse_one+0x18c/0x1d0 parse_args+0xe1/0x230 load_module+0x8de/0xa60 init_module_from_file+0x8b/0xd0 idempotent_init_module+0x181/0x240 __x64_sys_finit_module+0x5a/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x5f/0xe0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-26744
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a5c039dac1b1b7ba3e91c791f4421052bf79b82
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84f1dac960cfa210a3b7a7522e6c2320ae91932b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/989af2f29342a9a7c7515523d879b698ac8465f4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aee4dcfe17219fe60f2821923adea98549060af8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c99a827d3cff9f84e1cb997b7cc6386d107aa74d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdfa083549de5d50ebf7f6811f33757781e838c0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe2a73d57319feab4b3b175945671ce43492172f
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html