CVE-2024-36890
May 30, 2024, 6:18 p.m.
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers
Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that
will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831x_gpio_dbg_show().
171 char *label __free(kfree) = gpiochip_dup_line_label(chip, i);
172 if (IS_ERR(label)) {
173 dev_err(wm831x->dev, "Failed to duplicate label\n");
174 continue;
175 }
The auto clean up function should check for error pointers as well,
otherwise we're going to keep hitting issues like this.
Product(s) Impacted
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Linux kernel |
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Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.
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Timeline
Published: May 30, 2024, 4:15 p.m.
Last Modified: May 30, 2024, 6:18 p.m.
Last Modified: May 30, 2024, 6:18 p.m.
Status : Awaiting Analysis
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