CVE-2024-35940

pstore/zone: Add a null pointer check to the psz_kmsg_read

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: May 19, 2024
Updated: Oct 15, 2026
Reserved: May 17, 2024

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	d26c3321fe18dc74517dc1f518d584aa33b0a851 to before 98e2b97acb875d65bdfc75fc408e67975cef3041Affected d26c3321fe18dc74517dc1f518d584aa33b0a851 to before 0ff96ec22a84d80a18d7ae8ca7eb111c34ee33bbAffected d26c3321fe18dc74517dc1f518d584aa33b0a851 to before 635594cca59f9d7a8e96187600c34facb8bc0682Affected d26c3321fe18dc74517dc1f518d584aa33b0a851 to before ec7256887d072f98c42cdbef4dcc80ddf84c7a70Affected d26c3321fe18dc74517dc1f518d584aa33b0a851 to before 6f9f2e498eae7897ba5d3e33908917f68ff4abccAffected d26c3321fe18dc74517dc1f518d584aa33b0a851 to before 98bc7e26e14fbb26a6abf97603d59532475e97f8Affected
LinuxLinux	5.8Affected before 5.8Not affected 5.10.215 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.155 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.86 through 6.1.Not affected 6.6.27 through 6.6.Not affected 6.8.6 through 6.8.*Not affected 6.9 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

d26c3321fe18dc74517dc1f518d584aa33b0a851 to before 98e2b97acb875d65bdfc75fc408e67975cef3041Affected
d26c3321fe18dc74517dc1f518d584aa33b0a851 to before 0ff96ec22a84d80a18d7ae8ca7eb111c34ee33bbAffected
d26c3321fe18dc74517dc1f518d584aa33b0a851 to before 635594cca59f9d7a8e96187600c34facb8bc0682Affected
d26c3321fe18dc74517dc1f518d584aa33b0a851 to before ec7256887d072f98c42cdbef4dcc80ddf84c7a70Affected
d26c3321fe18dc74517dc1f518d584aa33b0a851 to before 6f9f2e498eae7897ba5d3e33908917f68ff4abccAffected
d26c3321fe18dc74517dc1f518d584aa33b0a851 to before 98bc7e26e14fbb26a6abf97603d59532475e97f8Affected

LinuxLinux

5.8Affected
before 5.8Not affected
5.10.215 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.155 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.86 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.6.27 through 6.6.*Not affected
6.8.6 through 6.8.*Not affected
6.9 and laterNot affected

References

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