CVE-2024-43822

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoc: PCM6240: Return directly after a failed devm_kzalloc() in pcmdevice_i2c_probe() The value “-ENOMEM” was assigned to the local variable “ret” in one if branch after a devm_kzalloc() call failed at the beginning. This error code will trigger then a pcmdevice_remove() call with a passed null pointer so that an undesirable dereference will be performed. Thus return the appropriate error code directly.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedAug 17, 2024
First seenAug 17, 2024

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel6.10.3 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel6.10 ≤ v < 6.10.36.10.3

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