NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-doc package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELDOC-8403912
- published 26 Nov 2024
- disclosed 7 Nov 2024
Introduced: 7 Nov 2024
New CVE-2024-50160 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: hda/cs8409: Fix possible NULL dereference
If snd_hda_gen_add_kctl fails to allocate memory and returns NULL, then NULL pointer dereference will occur in the next line.
Since dolphin_fixups function is a hda_fixup function which is not supposed to return any errors, add simple check before dereference, ignore the fail.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50160
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21dc97d5086fdabbe278786bb0a03cbf2e26c793
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e19aca8db696b6ba4dd8c73657405e15c695f14
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8971fd61210d75fd2af225621cd2fcc87eb1847c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5dd71a8b849626f42d08a5e73d382f2016fc7bc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9bd4a82b4ed32c6d1c90500a52063e6e341517f