CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-35878
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-05-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
of: module: prevent NULL pointer dereference in vsnprintf()
In of_modalias(), we can get passed the str and len parameters which would
cause a kernel oops in vsnprintf() since it only allows passing a NULL ptr
when the length is also 0. Also, we need to filter out the negative values
of the len parameter as these will result in a really huge buffer since
snprintf() takes size_t parameter while ours is ssize_t...
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the Svace static
analysis tool.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 6.6.26)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.8.5)
• linux linux kernel 6.9
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/544561dc56f7e69a053c25e11e6170f48bb97898 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1aa5390cc912934fee76ce80af5f940452fa987 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4a449368a2ce6d57a775d0ead27fc07f5a86e5b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/544561dc56f7e69a053c25e11e6170f48bb97898 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1aa5390cc912934fee76ce80af5f940452fa987 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4a449368a2ce6d57a775d0ead27fc07f5a86e5b Patch