CVE-2024-56773

kunit: Fix potential null dereference in kunit_device_driver_test()

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Jan 8, 2025
Updated: May 11, 2026
Reserved: Dec 29, 2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kunit: Fix potential null dereference in kunit_device_driver_test()

kunit_kzalloc() may return a NULL pointer, dereferencing it without NULL check may lead to NULL dereference. Add a NULL check for test_state.

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	d03c720e03bd9bf0b784d80b5d3ede7e2daf3b6e to before 5d28fac59369b5d3c48cdf09e50275a61ff91202Affected d03c720e03bd9bf0b784d80b5d3ede7e2daf3b6e to before 435c20eed572a95709b1536ff78832836b2f91b1Affected
LinuxLinux	6.8Affected before 6.8Not affected 6.12.4 through 6.12.*Not affected 6.13 and laterNot affected

References

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