NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-modules-extra package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELMODULESEXTRA-8613679
  • published10 Jan 2025
  • disclosed8 Jan 2025

Introduced: 8 Jan 2025

NewCVE-2024-56782  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-modules-extra.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules-extra package and not the kernel-modules-extra 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:

ACPI: x86: Add adev NULL check to acpi_quirk_skip_serdev_enumeration()

acpi_dev_hid_match() does not check for adev == NULL, dereferencing it unconditional.

Add a check for adev being NULL before calling acpi_dev_hid_match().

At the moment acpi_quirk_skip_serdev_enumeration() is never called with a controller_parent without an ACPI companion, but better safe than sorry.

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