NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-rt-devel-matched package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELRTDEVELMATCHED-7932793
  • published12 Sept 2024
  • disclosed11 Sept 2024

Introduced: 11 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-45027  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-rt-devel-matched.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-devel-matched package and not the kernel-rt-devel-matched package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: xhci: Check for xhci->interrupters being allocated in xhci_mem_clearup()

If xhci_mem_init() fails, it calls into xhci_mem_cleanup() to mop up the damage. If it fails early enough, before xhci->interrupters is allocated but after xhci->max_interrupters has been set, which happens in most (all?) cases, things get uglier, as xhci_mem_cleanup() unconditionally derefences xhci->interrupters. With prejudice.

Gate the interrupt freeing loop with a check on xhci->interrupters being non-NULL.

Found while debugging a DMA allocation issue that led the XHCI driver on this exact path.

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