Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-46769 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Linux Kernel

047910
CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
linux
CWE-476

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: intel: Add check devm_kasprintf() returned value intel_spi_populate_chip() use devm_kasprintf() to set pdata->name. This can return a NULL pointer on failure but this returned value is not checked.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)