NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-cross-headers (opens in a new tab)
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Start learning- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-11561657
- published9 Aug 2025
- disclosed4 Sept 2024
Introduced: 4 Sep 2024
CVE-2024-44960 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: core: Check for unset descriptor
Make sure the descriptor has been set before looking at maxpacket. This fixes a null pointer panic in this case.
This may happen if the gadget doesn't properly set up the endpoint for the current speed, or the gadget descriptors are malformed and the descriptor for the speed/endpoint are not found.
No current gadget driver is known to have this problem, but this may cause a hard-to-find bug during development of new gadgets.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-44960
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a9df57d57452b104c46c918569143cf21d7ebf1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50c5248b0ea8aae0529fdf28dac42a41312d3b62
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/716cba46f73a92645cf13eded8d257ed48afc2a4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cc9ebcfe58be22f18056ad8bc6272d120bdcb3e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/973a57891608a98e894db2887f278777f564de18
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0362cd6e503278add954123957fd47990e8d9bf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba15815dd24cc5ec0d23e2170dc58c7db1e03b4a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df8e734ae5e605348aa0ca2498aedb73e815f244