NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-syms package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.14.2

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-syms package and not the kernel-syms package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

media: atomisp: ssh_css: Fix a null-pointer dereference in load_video_binaries

The allocation failure of mycs->yuv_scaler_binary in load_video_binaries() is followed with a dereference of mycs->yuv_scaler_binary after the following call chain:

sh_css_pipe_load_binaries() |-> load_video_binaries(mycs->yuv_scaler_binary == NULL) | |-> sh_css_pipe_unload_binaries() |-> unload_video_binaries()

In unload_video_binaries(), it calls to ia_css_binary_unload with argument &pipe->pipe_settings.video.yuv_scaler_binary[i], which refers to the same memory slot as mycs->yuv_scaler_binary. Thus, a null-pointer dereference is triggered.

• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-38547.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1226632
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b621e9e9e148c0928ab109ac3d4b81487469acb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b68b861b514a5c09220d622ac3784c0ebac6c80
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6482c433863b257b0b9b687c28ce80b89d5f89f0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69b27ff82f87379afeaaea4b2f339032fdd8486e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82c2c85aead3ea3cbceef4be077cf459c5df2272
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1ab99dcc8604afe7e3bccb01b10da03bdd7ea35
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc20c87b04db86c8e3e810bcdca686b406206069