CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-42255
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-08-08
- 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:
tpm: Use auth only after NULL check in tpm_buf_check_hmac_response()
Dereference auth after NULL check in tpm_buf_check_hmac_response().
Otherwise, unless tpm2_sessions_init() was called, a call can cause NULL
dereference, when TCG_TPM2_HMAC is enabled.
[jarkko: adjusted the commit message.]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 6.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness