CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-38575
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-06-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 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:
wifi: brcmfmac: pcie: handle randbuf allocation failure
The kzalloc() in brcmf_pcie_download_fw_nvram() will return null
if the physical memory has run out. As a result, if we use
get_random_bytes() to generate random bytes in the randbuf, the
null pointer dereference bug will happen.
In order to prevent allocation failure, this patch adds a separate
function using buffer on kernel stack to generate random bytes in
the randbuf, which could prevent the kernel stack from overflow.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.30 < 6.1.93)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.3.4 < 6.6.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.8.12)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.9 < 6.9.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0eb2c0528e232b3c32cde9d5e1c9f80ba2996e49 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/316f790ebcf94bdf59f794b7cdea4068dc676d4c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3729ca9e48d19a03ae049e2bde510e161c2f3720 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c15eb344b0d4d3468c9b2a7591ad2b859b29b88 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c37466406f075476c2702ecc01917928af871f3b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0eb2c0528e232b3c32cde9d5e1c9f80ba2996e49 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/316f790ebcf94bdf59f794b7cdea4068dc676d4c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3729ca9e48d19a03ae049e2bde510e161c2f3720 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c15eb344b0d4d3468c9b2a7591ad2b859b29b88 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c37466406f075476c2702ecc01917928af871f3b Patch