Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-26770 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: nvidia-shield: Add missing null pointer checks to LED initialization devm_kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which can be NULL upon failure. Ensure the allocation was successful by checking the pointer validity. [[email protected]: tweak changelog a bit]
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83527a13740f57b45f162e3af4c7db4b88521100
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83527a13740f57b45f162e3af4c7db4b88521100
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6eda11c44dc89a681e1c105f0f4660e69b1e183
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6eda11c44dc89a681e1c105f0f4660e69b1e183
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e71cc4a1e584293deafff1a7dea614b0210d0443
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e71cc4a1e584293deafff1a7dea614b0210d0443