CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-35940

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-05-19 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-05-19
Last modified
2026-10-15
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pstore/zone: Add a null pointer check to the psz_kmsg_read kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful by checking the pointer validity.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.10.215) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.155) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.86) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.27) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.8.6) • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References